"1: The existence of an interventionist God: I will not take this from anyone. Nobody knows such a thing. The Galactica series uses the interventionist God model to explain the story! This reminds me of the intelligent design concept. Religion masquerading as science so as to give it extra credibility. That's what this felt like.
The pivotal characters--the characters with which the series would not have happened--were divinely inspired and/or guided. That pretty much destroys the series."
interestingly, teleological concepts have long played a role in science fiction. arthur c. clarke managed to pull it off quite well in works like "childhood's end" and "2001: a space odyssey." kurt vonnegut, though, savaged the notion in "the sirens of titan," in which human history is the result of manipulation by aliens trying to get a replacement part for a broken-down spaceship to one of their kind stranded on titan, a moon of saturn. stonehenge, the great wall of china, etc., were messages in geometrical language to the stranded one about their progress. Vonnegut's opinion about an "interventionist god" was reflected in the establishment of a religion called "the church of god, the utterly indifferent." it taught that one of the worst things you could say was, "somebody up there likes me." as to battlestar galactica, i haven't seen it but i remember a tv show of the same name way back when, starring lorne greene (of "bonanza" fame). it was, i believe cancelled after one season. as vonnegut would say, "so it goes."
The pivotal characters--the characters with which the series would not have happened--were divinely inspired and/or guided. That pretty much destroys the series."
interestingly, teleological concepts have long played a role in science fiction. arthur c. clarke managed to pull it off quite well in works like "childhood's end" and "2001: a space odyssey."
kurt vonnegut, though, savaged the notion in "the sirens of titan," in which human history is the result of manipulation by aliens trying to get a replacement part for a broken-down spaceship to one of their kind stranded on titan, a moon of saturn. stonehenge, the great wall of china, etc., were messages in geometrical language to the stranded one about their progress. Vonnegut's opinion about an "interventionist god" was reflected in the establishment of a religion called "the church of god, the utterly indifferent." it taught that one of the worst things you could say was, "somebody up there likes me."
as to battlestar galactica, i haven't seen it but i remember a tv show of the same name way back when, starring lorne greene (of "bonanza" fame). it was, i believe cancelled after one season. as vonnegut would say, "so it goes."
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