I've never really got into science fiction. I did like Frank Herbert's epic sci-fi Dune series. Someone said that science fiction is the last moral genre in literature.
My father was a nuclear physicist. He's still concerned about the issue of nuclear armament. (We've been watching the TV series Manhattan, about the scientists who built the first A-bombs.) In the early 1960s he went to a peace conference in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, and heard a speech by cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
I don't see how religion and science are so incompatible. Sure, some literalists insist that the theory of evolution goes against the Book of Genesis, but I imagine scripture as allowing flexible interpretation. Religion and science really operate in different areas, it seems to me.
I may know more about subjects like geography and chemistry than William Shakespeare did, but he seemed to know everything about life!
The more I learn, the less I feel like I know. I guess that's wisdom.
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