Some links from the last month

Continuing the great catch-up project, here are some links from the last month or so:

At Tor.com, Teresa Jusino ponders religion, science, and science fiction. I'm interested in her approach to the "provable" deities of (for instance) Avatar and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:

Most people who debate science vs. religion tend to ask the same boring question. Does God exist? 
Yawn. However, the question in all of these stories is never "Do these
beings really exist?" The question is "What do we...