Faith and Science (Fiction), but Different
The Vatican Observatory Faith and Science web resource contains hundreds of entries on the broad topic of faith and science. I am Editor of this resource, and my more recent efforts in this regard have tended toward trying to find a wide variety of different material to add to the resource. And one new entry that really is “something completely different” is on the book Islam, Science Fiction and Extraterrestrial Life: The Culture of Astrobiology in the Muslim World by Jörg Matthias Determann. The chances are good that readers of Sacred Space Astronomy know something about science fiction. After all, with Marvel and Star Wars so popular now, the person who knows nothing about science fiction is pretty rare these days. But chances are also good that even those readers who know a good deal about science fiction will not be familiar with the material discussed in Determann’s book (which, as its title says, straddles both science fiction and science—and … Continue reading →