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If you hang around this blog a lot, you might not realize that discussion of sci-fi on biblioblogs is not universal, although it is not exactly uncommon either.<\/p>\n

Today, Scot McKnight shared a link to and excerpt from<\/a> an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/i> on what led a programmer of robots to switch tracks and study philosophy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Julie Clawson blogged about speculative fiction, other prophetic literature, and the church<\/a>.<\/p>\n

IO9 mentioned the development of technology to integrate circuitry into skin<\/a>, and Scott Bailey quickly realized that premillenial dispensationalists are bound to connect it with their science fiction type of view of the mark of the beast<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Rod of Alexandria blogged about Warehouse 13, sci-fi and sexism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And finally, IO9 has a post about suspension of disbelief<\/a>, which I would love to see become the basis for discussion of suspension of disbelief among religious believers.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"