Haven't read any of the books cited in the io9 article (although I'm sure it won't be long before I get onto the Iain Banks book, I've been eying it of since it came out).
I have read GOOD OMENS and PREACHER and a good slab of ol' Piers Anthony--and of course there's Roger Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT (if you haven't read it, you should--Rog was the first, I thinjk, and he's still the best).
I do think that it's a bit short sighted of i09 to say that these books are about Intelligent Design just because that's what's in the news right now--the parable about the brain in a vat (or, prior to that, the 'deceitful demon') has been a subject of philosophical debate for centuries. It's about the first thing you cover in any University-level epistemology class.
As you know, I'm sort of working on the topic myself right now; with a particular emphasis on the origins and purpose of the Devil.
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Haven't read any of the books cited in the io9 article (although I'm sure it won't be long before I get onto the Iain Banks book, I've been eying it of since it came out).
I have read GOOD OMENS and PREACHER and a good slab of ol' Piers Anthony--and of course there's Roger Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT (if you haven't read it, you should--Rog was the first, I thinjk, and he's still the best).
I do think that it's a bit short sighted of i09 to say that these books are about Intelligent Design just because that's what's in the news right now--the parable about the brain in a vat (or, prior to that, the 'deceitful demon') has been a subject of philosophical debate for centuries. It's about the first thing you cover in any University-level epistemology class.
As you know, I'm sort of working on the topic myself right now; with a particular emphasis on the origins and purpose of the Devil.
-- JF