God bless you, Ron D. Moore.
Battlestar Galactica Blog: "The religious angle was something that evolved after the first draft of the miniseries. In that draft, I had mentioned, almost in passing, that Number Six believed in God and that really intrigued Michael Jackson (the executive, not the singer) who was working at the studio at the time. He suggested making it a bigger part of the show and also to more strongly play the Al-Queada/Cylon parallels. Both comments surprised and delighted me and I was more than happy to go in both those directions. The Colonials in the original were always mentioning the 'Lords of Kobol' and I decided to make that literal rather than figurative and give them a polytheistic religion and the Cylons a monotheistic belief system. I found the clash of those two belief systems to be fascinating in our own history and thought it would be an interesting conflict in the show."
It's real science fiction. That makes me so happy. And yes, the religious stuff, and the fact that the Cylons seem to believe in God, is one of the most intriguing parts of the show to me.
It's real science fiction. That makes me so happy. And yes, the religious stuff, and the fact that the Cylons seem to believe in God, is one of the most intriguing parts of the show to me.
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Some guy on a message board noted that because all machines are created either by man, or by other machines, it seems likely, even practical, that intelligent machines would routinely seek out and gravitate towards a "Creator." After all, a superior intelligence is always involved in their design.
What an interesting twist! Machines which are always portrayed as cold, ruthless, and impractical, are, in Battlestar Galactica, passionate, emotional, and even illogial.
Except! The Machines know exactly who their creator was. What need is there for God when you know perfectly well you were created by Man? Additionally, and here's a fun twist, it might be fair to say thaat in the man/machine dichotomy the machines are the superior intellect, meaning their Creator was an INFERIOR intellect.
Not sure what to make of all that, but it certainly takes all the standards and turns them on their heads, no?
Yes they were created by man, but I see that the same way I look at how people marry the idea of evolution to a God. Sure, animals evolved over time, but that doesn't mean God didn't have anything to do with it. He guided them in that way to eventually get to us. The Cylons might be seeing themselves in that light. Sure, God created Man, but he did it to create the cylons.
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