Tag: science fiction
The “Surprisingly Consistent” Answer to the Question: Are We Alone in the Universe?
The firm belief in extraterrestrial life — a belief nearly universal in the scientific community — is an act of faith.
In Search of Self-Replicating Clocks
That Darwinism seems even superficially plausible depends completely on the ability of living things to reproduce themselves without significant degradation.
On Fantasy in Modern Science
An attribute of a good sci-fi story is that it should open new vistas for the imagination while, at the same time, not requiring the reader to put up with the preposterous.
Experimental Science and Its Implications for Faith
A nice thing about being young is that you have no idea how much you do not know.
Mike Keas: Modern-Day Atheism Meets the Occult
Keas describes the surprisingly religious role played by much atheistic science fiction. The discussion includes 2001: A Space Odyssey and H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds.