{"id":1586,"date":"2010-02-25T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/technologically-advanced-life-before-google\/"},"modified":"2010-02-25T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:21:00","slug":"technologically-advanced-life-before-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/02\/technologically-advanced-life-before-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Technologically Advanced Life Before Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Tomorrow in my religion and sci-fi class one topic we\u2019ll be talking about is science fiction connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The most famous example is probably the original Battlestar Galactica (with Orson Scott Card a close second).<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_yG4u_S86uY\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_yG4u_S86uY<\/a>\n<p>As I noticed the comment of the person who shared the video above (from the episode \u201cWar of the Gods\u201d), I realized that a young person today would watch it and wonder why the crew of the Galactica didn\u2019t just \u201cGoogle\u201d the name Iblis\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7423856196934464324?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow in my religion and sci-fi class one topic we\u2019ll be talking about is science fiction connected with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 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