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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction. But what if this is true? It is totally irrelevant to the question of God's actual existence, as I shall now proceed to demonstrate...

Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise, 1979

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Of course man made God in his own image; but what was the alternative? Just as a real understanding of geology was impossible until we were able to study other worlds besides Earth, so a valid theology must await contact with extraterrestrial intelligences. There can be no such subject as comparative religion as long as we study only the religions of man.

Arthur C Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise, 1979

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Stills from 2001: A Space Odyssey (directed by Stanley Kubrick, written by Kubrick & Arthur C. Clarke, cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth, 1968).

(via Cinefex Magazine Issue 85)

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