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Article: Scanning the X-files for God.
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- Catholic Insight
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- March 1, 1997
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Claudia Sommers, a Catholic Insight board member and frequent contributor, here asks whether the "religion" underlying popular television series like The X-Files is based on the concept of a God-created universe or not. What does the creator of this series, Chris Carter, mean by "religion with a lower case `r' . . ."?
"The development of our cerebral cortex has been the greatest achievement of the evolutionary processes. Big deal... Maybe we have gone as far as we can go, and the next advance...will be made by beings we create ourselves...Or perhaps that step forward has already been achieved on another planet by organisms that have a billion years head start on ...