I used to be a creationist, and I have put some thought into this stumbling block. I came to the conclusion that it isn’t worth leaving out analogies to evolution, because the style of argument that would work best for most creationists is completely different to begin with.
Creationism is correlated with religious conservatism, and most religious conservatives outright deny that human extinction is a possibility.
The Compendium isn’t meant for that audience, because it explicitly presents a worldview, and religious conservatives tend to strongly resist shifts to their worldviews or the adoption of new worldviews (moreso than others already do). I think it is best left to other orgs to make arguments about AI Risk that are specifically friendly to religious conservatism. (This isn’t entirely hypothetical. PauseAI US has recently begun to make inroads with religious organizations.)
I used to be a creationist, and I have put some thought into this stumbling block. I came to the conclusion that it isn’t worth leaving out analogies to evolution, because the style of argument that would work best for most creationists is completely different to begin with. Creationism is correlated with religious conservatism, and most religious conservatives outright deny that human extinction is a possibility.
The Compendium isn’t meant for that audience, because it explicitly presents a worldview, and religious conservatives tend to strongly resist shifts to their worldviews or the adoption of new worldviews (moreso than others already do). I think it is best left to other orgs to make arguments about AI Risk that are specifically friendly to religious conservatism. (This isn’t entirely hypothetical. PauseAI US has recently begun to make inroads with religious organizations.)