Tegularius wrote: ↑February 13th, 2021, 11:13 pmIt's not a matter of newer. It's a matter of advancement. If the contents of the pot don't get stirred occasionally and sometimes violently with new spices added it will only degenerate.
You're speaking from one-lifetime perspective.
Dharmic religions see things differently, with their concept of the cyclic nature of existence.
So in Buddhism, for example, they say that a buddha emerges, teaches his teachings, then he passes away, the teachings slowly become corrupted by people, until the teachings finally disappear completely, and after a while, a new buddha emerges, and again teaches his teachings, and so on, in circles.
It's not only that individual beings are reincarnated/reborn, it's that the whole universe exists in such cycles of creation and destruction.