"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well." -- Psalm 139:14

As I got older, I began to realize how profoundly humanistic that most science fiction actually is. It mostly assumes that there is no God, but for the sake of its watchers or readers it doesn't always state this clearly. It is pro-evolution, of course and for stories situated in the "future' it is assumed that the "truth" of evolution has been settled. When you think about it, the story of creation of the universe and man precludes aliens and so a universe populated by aliens is an affront to Genesis.

I have always been a fan of the Star Trek franchise but as a young Christian it set up the same type of cognitive dissonance that the teaching of evolution and various history courses did. (I had read many books on history outside of class). This permitted one to "ace" evolutionary biology in high school and college without subscribing to much of it.

One of the most futuristic and fun technologies presented by Star Trek was/is teleportation. Teleportation is the invented futuristic technology whereby a person is converted from matter to energy, "beamed" to another distant location and then converted back into their material form.

This is a technology that even Star Trek itself has wrestled with because it is profoundly materialistic to suppose that a person is matter only and does not have a soul. If a soul exists, it could not be teleported by converting a person into energy.

There is a tremendous amount of information in the DNA of every living cell. That information is a challenge to evolutionary theory because prior to discovering and understanding the implications of DNA information was always assumed by science to be an artifact of an intelligent source. This is the entire premise of SETI -the search for extraterrestrial radio or other signals. If there is information content it will assume to come from an intelligent source.

The writers of the Star Trek series were ignorant of the impact of DNA and its information storage capabilities as were the scientists of that time. In addition to the "soul" problem the information problem makes this technology impossible.

"In August 2008, physicist Michio Kaku predicted in Discovery Channel Magazine that a teleportation device similar to those in Star Trek would be invented within 100 years.

Physics students at University of Leicester calculated that to "beam up" just the genetic information of a single human cell, not the positions of the atoms, just the gene sequences, together with a "brain state" would take 4,850 trillion years assuming a 30 gigahertz microwave bandwidth.

A study by Eric Davis for the US Air Force Research Laboratory of speculative teleportation technologies showed that to dematerialize a human body by heating it up to a million times the temperature of the core of the sun so that the quarks lose their binding energy and become mass-less and can be beamed at the speed of light in the closest physics equivalent to the Star Trek teleportation scenario would require the equivalent of 330 megatons of energy.

To meet the information storage and transmission requirements would require current computing capabilities to continue improve by a factor of 10 to 100 times per decade for 200 to 300 years." Wikipedia

Captain! You'd better take the Shuttle-craft!

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