Precisely what makes you think that a group of people who dismiss a concept as simple and transparent as natural selection will accept a collection of--probably significantly more complex--"reductionist principles upon which our consciousness operates"?
Similarly (and in opposition to many of the opinions in the other responses), if faced with artificial consciousnesses, why do you expect them not to ascribe to them the same "soul" substance that they allow themselves (ultimately, anyway--early resistance is likely to be universal)? After all, it is immediately evident that people can perform an action that creates an entity with an independent consciousness; if humanity develops another such creation method, how would that contradict their theology?
Similarly (and in opposition to many of the opinions in the other responses), if faced with artificial consciousnesses, why do you expect them not to ascribe to them the same "soul" substance that they allow themselves (ultimately, anyway--early resistance is likely to be universal)? After all, it is immediately evident that people can perform an action that creates an entity with an independent consciousness; if humanity develops another such creation method, how would that contradict their theology?