Watch the Skies!

Filed under Articles, Ethics, Movies by on June 22, 2009 at 12:00 am {no comments}

“Pop-culture fiction, not academic nonfiction, is now the cutting edge of public discourse on spirituality.”[1]

For several months I have been working on an extended project that explores the relationship of pop-culture to societal norms and worldview shifts. In addition to comic books, film, and music, I’ve been looking at science fiction and the search for extraterrestrial life. Science and science-fiction have converged on the subject for quite some time. “Nicholas of Cusa (Kues, German, 1401-1464) was a theologian who in De docta ignorantia

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Aliens as Cosmic Saviors

Filed under Apologetics, Articles, Science by on March 31, 2009 at 12:00 am {no comments}

On Saturday, my wife and I went to see Knowing, starring Nicolas Cage, which is a strange mix of UFOlogy, panspermia, the destruction of Earth by fire (2 Pet. 3:10), the Edenic Tree of Life, and determinism vs. randomness. Cage’s character, John Koestler, is giving a lecture to his astrophysics’ class at M.I.T. when he presents the conundrum of determinism vs. randomness.1 When the class asks him what he believes, he picks randomness. “There is no grand meaning, there is no purpose.” He ends the session with “I think s**t just happens.” The perfect summary of an atheist’s worldview.

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The Black & White Dark Night

Filed under Articles, Ethics, Movies by on December 18, 2008 at 12:00 am {one comment}

Forget for a minute that you exist. Forget about your life, what it is and what you expected it would be. Forget about your likes and dislikes, your preferences and annoyances, your motivations and discouragements. Forget that you have a mother and a father, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and colleagues. Forget that you have a place in this world, whether good or bad, happy or sad. Forget, if you can, that you exist at all. In fact, forget that you ever existed. Imagine a world that doesn’t include you.

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