It's a fact: religion has attempted to frustrate the laws of
physics.  It wants to be constant, unaltered and unmoved. 
Religion wants to set itself in stone, declare its tenets to be
inarguable, unchanging and unchanged.  Christianity makes noises
about Alpha and Omega and "from everlasting to everlasting." 
One branch stakes a claim to infallibility and others that its
holy book is divinely inspired and therefore beyond question. 
Altogether, it amounts to a lot of sound and fury, to be sure.
The problem is that, for all the sound and fury, religion has
modified itself practically since its inception and continues to
change, sometimes purposefully, sometimes in spite of itself. 
Sometimes the alterations are as simple as the cherry-picking
process.  I mean, how often have we heard: "Oh, but THOSE rules
were for a different culture and age"?  On occasion religion
will wrestle with what is presumed to be its constant because
its own written reference conflicts with itself, hardly what I
would call a reliable