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02202aam a2200301 i 4500 001 7325DF4083F811ECA43678234CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220202011724 008 210922s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1734438444 020 $a 9781734438444 035 $a (OCoLC)1268944060 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Freeman, Stan. 245 1 $a The god question and the Galapagos colony $h [BOOK] : $b two science-fiction novellas / $c by Stan Freeman. 246 3 $a Galapagos colony. 264 1 $a Florence, Mass : $b Hampshire House Publishing, $c [2021] 300 $a 294 pages ; $c 22 cm. 500 $a "Science and religion collide in two science fiction novellas"--Cover. 520 $a In these two sci-fi novellas, the difficult relationship of science and religion is explored. In THE GOD QUESTION a programming breakthrough at Stanford University produces the first supercomputer with intelligence greater than a human's - far greater. The federal government quickly confiscates the software as a security threat. However, working in secret, two scientists with a backup copy decide to program their own supercomputer with it and ask the ultimate question: Is there evidence for God, for a spiritual framework to life? To their astonishment, the computer arrives at an answer. Their problem is that it refuses to tell them what that answer is. In THE GALAPAGOS COLONY, In 2242, a settlement ship sent out from Earth and carrying several hundred people becomes hopelessly lost. Eventually they find what they believe is a hospitable planet. It isn't. Only the youngest children survive in the stranded colony. However, without a knowledge of Earth's history or of the technologies that brought them there, they still manage to forge a distinct culture based on a unique philosophy. Two centuries later, a passing deep-space probe finds them. 541 $d 20211005. 650 $a Supercomputers $v Fiction. 650 $a Space colonies $v Fiction. 650 $a science fiction. 650 $a Religion and science $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l WXPD305 $d 20220202021446.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7325DF4083F811ECA43678234CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search