Science Fiction and the Christian Faith: Apologetics.com Review of District 9
Written by Christopher Neiswonger
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15 August 2009

Special guest Leo Partible joins the Apologetics.com team for a show on all things Sci Fi. With Peter Jackson, Neill Blomkamp has created a tragic vision of "first contact". For more than a hundred years the storytelling genre Science Fiction has been grappling with the issues of technological advancement and the sciences in conflict with man.
Often these stories attempt a critique of the human condition and a vision of the future, things that have traditionally been the domain of religion; they have an ethic, a salvation, and an eschatology. Usually Sci fi is presented within the context of a mechanistic or naturalistic worldview and Christians have often asked whether this kind of framework is up to the moral task this genre seems to demand.