Please, if you have an hour or two free, skip down to our spoiler-free meditation upon the final episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Then read the comment by James Redford. Clocking in at almost 2900 words -- about twelve pages of typescript -- it is easily the longest blog-comment we have ever received, and if memory serves, the longest we have ever read.
Well, that last bit is a fib, since we haven't actually read it, so much as skimmed. It's Saturday, after all, and we have a sermon to write. His point seems to be that (a) Tipler doesn't prove the miracles happened, but that they could have happened; and further that (b) despite the lack of consensus, Tipler's math has some merit; and yet further that (c) theology, insofar as it is influenced by science, need not restrict itself to scientific ideas which happen to have majority support; and finally (one hopes) that (d) many scientists are so committed to a god-free worldview that they unscientifically refuse to follow when the equations lead them toward God.
All fair enough, we suppose, although we'd fight him a little on (c), and wonder whether (d) really applies to astrophysicists, whose work deals with some pretty counterintuitive stuff. But all this begs the bigger question:
Uh, James, dude. You do know we're talking about a TV show with robots in outer space, right?
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