"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from...

"Any sufficiently advanced technology

is indistinguishable from magic."

-- Arthur Clarke

Fantasy

Horror

Science Fiction

Fantasy

Horror

Science Fiction

supernatural

The Number of the Beast by Robert Heinlein postulates that the multiverse of quantum mechanics is waiting to be filled by thought particles from other universes. In an infinite series of infinities anything that can be thought becomes reality somewhere via these thought particles accumulating to previously empty universes.

Link from physical to other

• ‘Supernatural’ is a Pre-modern spiritual paradigm

• ‘Science’ is an invention of a Modern need to escape established spiritual paradigms

• ‘Multiverse’ or ‘Quantum’ is a Post-modern reunion of scientific inquiry and spiritual journey.

Remnants and reactions

• Creationism and Intelligent Design• Theistic religion• ‘Revealed’ Truth

God

• Theism Yahweh, Allah

• Deism ‘GGG’

So, does the multiverse invalidate creation by a personal god?

The monolith

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001

Integration of five major SF motifs

. . . and beyond

Directed intervention ?

Check your assumptions

• Universe (or multiverse) created by God

• Same God is personal master

• Last holy text has been written

• Time paradox impossible

• Evolution is unholy

• Creation is invalid

‘In the beginning. . .

"Any sufficiently advanced

technology is indistinguishable from magic."

-- Arthur Clarke