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EPISODE 2 – “What if You Could Go Back … to the FUTURE”
Why are time travel stories so compelling?
What is it about the idea of traveling through time that captures our imagination?
What do time travel stories teach us about ourselves? About God?
Why are they just so much fun?
In our second episode, we explore one of our favorite sub-genres of science fiction and fantasy: the time travel story.
Do you have a favorite time travel book or movie? Have a thought we didn’t touch on? Let us know! You can contact us via e-mail, Twitter, or Facebook!
Thanks for listening and Godspeed!
Written by Ben
Ben Avery is a storyteller. He uses comic books, podcasts, puppets or whatever else he can get his hands on to tell those stories.
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Great discussion! Brought back memories of films and tv shows I loved, and I learned a few more I need to see.
Thanks, Cindy! Glad you liked it. As I was putting the episode together, I thought of a bunch of movies I wish I had remembered when Dr. Jayce put me on the spot!
I loved the quote from Galileo about If science and the Bible contradict each other it means we’re reading one of them incorrectly. I’ve tried to locate the quote, but all I’ve found is a note that indicates that he said only our reading of the Bible is incorrect. Can you point me to the actual quotation?
Thanks!
Yes. It’s not an exact quote — the exact quote is very, very long. It comes from a letter to a monk Castelli, who got cornered one day because he loved to study the heavens. He was invited to a dinner and found himself defending the movement of the earth, which was being argued against by some people using the scripture (Psalms, saying “Thou fixed the Earth upon its foundations, not to be moved forever” and the like). Grand Duchess Cristina of Lorraine was in attendance at that dinner, and she questioned him persistently. So Castelli wrote to Galileo about the incident, and Galileo replied with a lengthy letter: “… Holy Scripture cannot err and the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. I should only have added that, though scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways …” and “… Holy Scripture and nature are but emanations from the divine word: the former dictated by the Holy Spirit, the latter the observant executrix of God’s commands.” One thing Madame Cristina brought up was also the miracle in which God stopped the sun in the sky for Joshua, and Galileo tried to show that that miracle actually made more sense if Copernicus was correct about the motion of the earth.
That letter was copied and passed around and denounced and given to a grand inquisitor — altered to make him look truly heretical. He sent a correct version of the original letter to clear his name. And later, he wrote a letter directly to Madame Cristina. It was longer and had numerous footnotes to theological writings. The correspondence can be found in Dava Sobel’s Galileo’s Daughter. It’s a good read. It paints an interesting picture of Galileo, who could really be a jerk at times (and an immoral one at that), and that tendency got a lot of the wrong people angry at him. But it is interesting to see how things really went down with him and the church. as new discoveries about the movement of the “heavens” were being made, he grew in frustration that the church, in trying to squash those ideas, was just going to look bad when the truth came out elsewhere. Unfortunately, Galileo’s actual beliefs and motives have been lost in the telling.
Just catching up on this one. Wouldn’t it be interesting to be able to take your loved ones forward in time to show them what their eternity without christ would look like?
perhaps salvation for them would no longer be possible, because they would *know.* If they knew for a fact, would salvation by grace through *faith* even be possible?
Interesting concept . . . does KNOWING nullify FAITH? It’s an idea that would be interesting to explore.