The second I had already had drawn to my attention via Pharyngula<\/a>. A fundamentalist blog called Way Of Life Literature<\/a> offers a warning: \u201cbeware of science fiction.\u201d The blog notes a number of atheists who\u00a0are famous<\/a>\u00a0figures<\/a> in the history of science fiction, labels evolution as \u201cscience fiction\u201d (even though young-earth creationism in fact offers a better fit to the label) and thinks these are reasons enough to dismiss\u00a0the entire\u00a0genre. <\/p>\n Personally, I\u2019m pretty sure that religion, just because it was a private matter in the original Star Trek series, wasn\u2019t actually gone<\/em>. Can anyone doubt that there were Enterprise crew members in red shirts who\u00a0attributed it to\u00a0divine providence if they returned from a landing party alive?<\/p>\n On a more serious note, it is striking to note the difference between the two web pages just mentioned. One offers detailed interaction with a range of content, and tries to interact with it in a thoughtful way. The other offers a denunciation of a whole genre through an ad hominem<\/em>\u00a0focus \u2013 all that we learn is that the author of that web page advises people not to read views that disagree with his own. <\/p>\n I hope that the sort of interaction my students engage in\u00a0this semester will resemble the former more than the latter.<\/p>\n I spent quite a bit of today (when I wasn\u2019t shoveling snow) working on finalizing the syllabus for my religion and science fiction course. The main thing that had to be done was filling in some of the readings (and making some tough choices about what, as interesting as it might be, will have to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/www.tor.com\/images\/stories\/blogs\/10_01\/A-Wrinkle-in-Time.jpg\")
<\/a>The first, by Teresa Jusino at Tor.com<\/a>, surveys a range of examples of science fiction that explores religious questions \u2013 and the article suggests that the key to interacting with science fiction and religion is precisely in asking the right questions.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7154877316339563810?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\")