What difference does that make? Did you know that HALF of the books in the library are fiction?
I used the word sci-fi, doesn't that tell you that I have an experiencial grasp of the genre?
Do you think we should burn all of those books because they are just the product of the imagination.
No I don't. You misjudge me.. I've spent a certain part of my childhood, through some highschool years reading library books. I've watched sci-fi, and some anime, and I've written some fictional stories that remain unfinished.
Concerning the op, I don't use movie plots to form my interpretations concerning Biblical issues. I keep the fiction and the Bible as separate as possible.
The Bible does address this exact issue. Genesis 6:5 "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually". \
You brought up that verse, not me. But I think that you have reacted as if I did use it to condemn all that is fictional, your personal attachment to it is quite telling.
It is clear that I use my imagination for good or at me age God would have destroyed me.
Any sinner once saved could look back at their wayward life and say that.
In Psalm 90 10 Moses tells us: "Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away."
I am 72, so if my imagination was evil or wicked then I would not have lived past 70. Although long life mostly has to do with eating the right food and living right.
Psalm 90 is what the generation that came out of Egypt said after God said that their unbelief keeps them from going into the promised land. The age of 70 is not like the end of life as happened in the movie "Logan's Run" where upon reaching age 30 the people were killed in an elaborate way so as not to scare the onlookers that when they reached 30 they'd die that way too. It was made into a grand event akin to the Biblical rapture.
After the movie's success they made a tv series out of it. I watched what I think may have been every episode but I don't remember any of them now.
So you see that I'm familiar with fiction.
Anyways, I should tell you that EvoDevo tells us that the laws are the same everywhere in the Universe. So if there were life anywhere in the universe it would be a lot like life here on Earth.
There's no guarantee of that. Every planet is different in distance from a heat source, in atmosphere, in measure of land to water if any, there are irregular weather differences, and none of them show signs of plant, animal, or humanoid life.
They'd all have to be terreformed to accomodate human life when humans get out there. Just think of all that would be required for the Mars program to make it even marginally habitable. It will probably take years and a lot of money and supplies for humans to be living inside large terrarriums. Like living in a camper while building a house.
(Sean Carroll) Or maybe you just think that evolution is a product of our imagination like everything else. Do you believe we live in a virtual world? Is this all a part of the matrix?
I don't know Sean Carroll so the mention does nothing.. Looking him up. All that he knows is based on evolution. His popularity and rewards are temporary and don't keep him from an ultimate unpleasant destination.
I would call evolution capable of imagination in that they believe in immediate materiality in the magical sense yet they expect people to take it seriously in a scientific sense. It's all formulated to explain away the need of a Creator who's highly moral and intelligent beyond any of them.
The entire idea of intelligent life elsewhere that would be more advanced than humans on earth is evolutionary in that intelligence always goes from animalistic to increasing upward so as to be beyond us. Yet the atheists still don't accept a higly intelligent Creator God who created everything. The denial is spiritual not intellectual.
Do you believe we live in a virtual world?
I should think that it would have been obvious that I don't. But I can be entertained by a fiction of living in a virtual world but it's only capable with man-made computers programed by humans. Making that programmer a kind of god of that virtual world. But how can that be compared with God Created reality?
There are some movies that depict such a virtual world.. the "Tron" movie where a man in the real world was cubed and sucked into the computer but didn't become an NPC but instead having authority over the programming that was greater than the nemesis programmer.
In some ways it's evolutionary that the atheists create or make their own world then insert themselves into it as the rulers of the whole thing. In the sense that all world rulers have been ungodly.
I saw the Tron movie in a Biblical sense in that God created the world then sent His Son Jesus to be the Savior of it and help all of the misprogramed people to get deprogramed and reprogramed according to the original programming.
Is this all a part of the matrix?
Again, it should be obvious that I don't think that. But apparently that is the only way that you choose to communicate.
I can be entertained by the fictional movie "Matrix" that is a new version of Tron, based on Jewish concepts of things with unique fictional interpretation.
Neo was similar to a Jewish Messiah in that only he could defeat the computer based controllers. The one who taught Neo was similar to Moses. The difference of a computer provided fictional life of sin and luxury (Eygpt) while a free from computer control life (Israel) is there for anyone to see.
Perhaps the Matrix is meant to convey-- life is what you make it. Your choice, pick the red or the (green or blue) pill.