No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.

How came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?
Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein and Ray Bradbury. Of those four, the first three were all published principally in science-fiction magazines. They were preaching to the converted.