ⓜ Creation Stories: Science, Religion, and Science Fiction…Part 3
In the fall of 2011, I was invited to give The Vivian J. Lamb Lecture on Science and Religion at Villanova University. The text of my hour-long talk ran to more than 6,000 words, and as far as I know it was never published anywhere. I’ve been publishing it here in three parts; this is the third and final part. The fact is, the greatest creation that each of us gets to make is our own lives. We start with the cards that are dealt to us – the situation into which we were born, the talents and limitations we were each of us given at birth – and then we have the chance to form and shape them into something new, something never done before. Our lives are our own personal science fiction novels. (Of course it’s science fiction; it takes place in the future, doesn’t it?) Granted, there’s only so much we can write, ourselves; sometimes the other … Continue reading →