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I like sci-fi, hold the religion.

[Rockingham]

Yet one of the best science fiction books of the 1960s, A Canticle For Liebowitz, dealt with the conflict between science and religion after a nuclear apocalypse, with sympathies tilted toward religion. Much of the attraction of science fiction is that it offers a way to deal with ultimate questions, which is also the realm of religion.

And, on consideration, although science applies materialism as a simplifying assumption, modern physics, in quantum mechanics, validates consciousness as real and essential. As the great German physicist Max Planck, a pioneer of quantum mechanics, explained, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”