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Five Worldview Questions and Sci-Fi

The main core of my new AiG talk, "Is Science Fiction Really Fiction?" is about worldviews—biblical versus humanistic. I start with the quotation from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:
When the original Star Trek series was created, Gene Roddenberry’s intent was to take very specific social commentary and slip it past the sensors by masking it as science fiction.
My point of the talk is that we need to turn our sensors back on by having a biblical worldview. Simply put, a "worldview" is the way that we view the world around us. It's like a pair of glasses. Our worldview affects how we interpret what we observe. From various studies, I arrived at the following five questions that reveal your worldview:
  1. What is the nature of God?
  2. What is the origin of life?
  3. What is the nature of man?
  4. What happens to a person at death?
  5. What is the nature of and basis for truth and morality?
That's the basic outline for my talk. After two years of watching popular science fiction, I've collected many clips that address the above issues quite directly. These range from simple statements that stem from the producers' secular worldview (such as many statements on evolution) to blatant attacks on a biblical worldview (Like Firefly's "Jaynestown," Star Trek: Voyager's "Distant Origin," or Stargate SG-1's (starring MacGyver) "New Ground). In my "painfully long" studies on this matter, I have the following status on science fiction viewing:
  • All Star Trek: The Next Generation—but, due to a crash, I lost all of my clips
  • All Star Trek: Voyager
  • Seasons one through six of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • Seasons one through four of Stargate: SG-1 (starring MacGyver)
  • Almost current with Battlestar Galactica
  • Almost current with Eureka
  • Several science fiction movies
Let me give you an example by two clips from Battlestar Galatica, season two, episode nineteen: So, here's where you can help. If you know of any science fiction that addresses the five worldview questions, please let me know. I would need the series and episode name. I especially need to somehow find all of the Star Trek: The Next Generation clips again. And for interesting discussion, I'd like to know what you think about these five worldview questions, and how you would answer each of them (in a single paragraph each).

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