Re: SF then & now (Was Re: Original Sin)

From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 18:14:36 EDT

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    In a message dated 10/7/03 4:51:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gmurphy@raex.com
    writes:

    > I continued this thread with a new name because I think SF deserves more
    > attention in science-theology discussions than it gets. SF films & TV play
    > a major role
    > in the popular understanding of science (mostly bad) & can serve as a
    > vehicle for
    > promoting views about religion, both positive & negative.
    >
    >

    If you're going to pay more attention to sf, then you've got to consider dune
    by frank herbert which won the hugo and nebula awards in the '60s. It's
    about the desert in the same way the Israleites spent 40 years in the desert and
    Jesus spent 40 days in the desert. It's all about ecology and evolution and
    religion and is probably closer to the truth of how religion works in this
    world than any fiction piece will ever get. The truth that herbert wrote in
    this fiction epic is the same truth Kevin MacDonald reveals in the MacDonald
    trilogy which came 30/40 years later.
    Please get the image of the dilaurentis production out of your mind - it was
    a poor rendering.

    rich faussette



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