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Can a computer have a soul? Are religion and science mutually exclusive? Is there really such a thing as free will? If you could time travel to visit Jesus, would you (and should you)? For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists and science fiction writers have pondered these questions and many more. In Holy Sci-Fi!, popular writer Paul Nahin explores the fertile and sometimes uneasy relationship between science fiction and religion. With a scope spanning the history of religion, philosophy and literature, Nahin follows religious themes in science fiction from Feynman to Foucault and from…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2014Springer · 244 pages · 9781493906178
- Other · English · 2014Springer · 9781493906185
Science fictionReligious aspectsReligion and literatureScience fiction, history and criticismReligion and science