Orville is a mostly OK series, neither bad nor good, some laughs, some awkward bad jokes, some smart twists, some embarrassing. But in this episode it proves what most people already understand, that it is NOT science fiction.
Reason and science is NOT something you have faith in, it's NOT magic! To advance science you must precisely be IRREVERENT towards science, you must challenge what you inherit.
On the other hand religion is not magic either. To think that a religion is simply the result of a "miraculous" phenomenon - rather than the artistic representation of a system of knowledge - betrays a naive and frankly, culturally illiterate individual.
I don't care for the juxtaposition of "barbarian Westerner" to "wise Arab/sub-Saharan African" either. That's actually a war on historical and scientific truth. I thought FOX was not on the side of the lunatics..
On the other hand religion is not magic either. To think that a religion is simply the result of a "miraculous" phenomenon - rather than the artistic representation of a system of knowledge - betrays a naive and frankly, culturally illiterate individual.
I don't care for the juxtaposition of "barbarian Westerner" to "wise Arab/sub-Saharan African" either. That's actually a war on historical and scientific truth. I thought FOX was not on the side of the lunatics..