I know a southern Baptist who served as a military officer who loves movies like The Martian, Star Wars, etc and TV shows like Babylon 5, Star Trek, and Battlestar Galactica.
First, most of the movies you listed, have absolutely nothing to do with science, so I was a little confused. You seem to imply between the title and the first post, that science-
fiction, is something other than......
Fiction.
There is nothing anti-G-d, or anti-religious about story telling, or science, or technology.
Now the story itself, can be anti-G-d, or Anti-religious, and many times are. Where the person of faith is depicted as some weak doormat, or a zealous buffoon, or just outright evil. As if no people of science and technology have ever been weak, buffoons, or evil.
But science and technology, is not anti-G-d. In fact, many people of faith, work in high end technology.
Portable 'blood test in a box' gives instant diagnoses - CNN.com
This is a portable instant blood test device. Prick your finger real quick, one drop of blood on the scanner, instant test for hundreds of diseases.
The technology used to create this device, was made over a decade ago. I know this, because I met the man who created it. He came to our Men Spring Retreat sponsored by my parents church, and he taught a sermon on how he started off at MIT, came to our church, and became a Christian. Our pastor met with him, because he intended to quit MIT and become a preacher. Our pastor said looking at his grades, and his skill set, that he had been given a gift to help people in a different way, and convinced him to stay at MIT.
He now has
FOUR Ph.Ds. And is a devout Evangelical Christian. He discovered a way to allow a microchip to analyze electrical pulses to find DNA patterns. Thus it can detect many genetic traces in blood, like that of certain diseases. (do not ask me about it, he only glazed over the technical details, and I'm in no way qualified to explain it)
Of course that was around 2004, and thanks to the FDA protecting us from cures and benefits, it's taken over a decade to get to market.
But the point is, his faith led him to create a technology that could be used to help people around the world. It didn't some how prevent him from being involved in science or technology. That isn't even logical, since G-d is the one who created all of the laws of physics and science that we know.
In fact all of the foundations of science we have today, came from the theological seminaries of the past. Originally, all institutions of learning were religious institutions, that believed as part of their faith, that we should learn about the world G-d created for us.
So no. There is no magic barrier between religion and science, nor should they be in any way separated. In fact, it's impossible to separate them. When you try and learn about the world around you, that world view comes from some aspect of faith.
The claim of there being a division between science and religion, has to do with Genesis. Some people who claim to be scientists, attempt to pick up a rock, and using magic and tarot cards, claim to be able to determine the past.
Now "science" if you look up the word, means:
"is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe"
Notice "testable explanations".
When they pick up a rock, and say this rock is 80 Billion years old, and that disproves Genesis..... ask yourself.... can they test that? Can they empirically, replicate, and test, proof that this rock is 80 Billion years old?
No, they can't. They can look at the contents and makeup of the rock, and determine it's elements. They can assume what elements it should have when the rock was formed. They can assume what break down rate of the rock was, based on the assumption of what the circumstances were that the rock was in.
But they can't go back in time, and prove with conclusive evidence, with reproducibility, how old that rock is.
So.... is that science? No it is not. Not according to the accepted understanding of what science is. It's more like fortune telling.
And THAT.... and religion does have a problem.
