Comparison Of Herberts Dune And Asimovs Foundation Series Effects Of

Comparison of Herbert's "Dune" and Asimov's "Foundation Series": Effects of Technology and Belief Systems on the Individual Technology and belief have a great deal to do in making a good science fiction novel. Frank Herbert's Dune and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series give excellent examples of this. Belief systems are defined as religious beliefs in a society. Technology is defined as the level of science achieved in a society. These two factors play separate roles in a society. Yet, at times, they fall into the same categories like in the book Dune where science reflects religious aspects or in Foundation where the society depends on religion and social behavior to survive the onslaught of advanced technology. Religion might be a fuel to achieve a specific level of technology. Such as in the Bible, "Seek and you shall find." May mean that God wants all Christians to achieve the highest amount of experience that they are capable of. Religion gives an individual, morals and control, while science gives an individual the medium under which he can explore the hidden. "Dune" is a fine example that shows the mingling of religion and science and how it affects the individual or society. Religion is the main idea in the book Dune. The author states the different types of religions that come to pass since the beginning of this age. Before the coming of Muad'Dib (a savior), the desert people on the planet of Arrakis practiced a religion whose roots came from an undetermined source. Many scholars have traced the extensive borrowing of this religion from other religions. Many people were confused to find that so many ideas in one religion easily reflected another. From this confusion, the people of Arrakis formed a committee known as the Orange Catholic Liturgical Church. This church was the first to introduce a type of religious belief in which there was one god, and the book of revelation was known as the Orange Catholic Bible. After this church, came the Bene Gesserit, who privately denied that their order was a religious order, but in fact, all of their teachings and beliefs were quite religious. Following this religious order, came an age of agnostic rule. In this time, people thought religion was a type of theatrical way to keep the people amused and believed that all phenomenon even unexplained phenomenon could be reduced to simple scientific explanation. As time changed, the fourth religious movement was the Ancient Teachings. These ancient teachings included Zensunni Wanderers, the Navachristianity of Chusuk, the BuddIslamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankival and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur and the Muadh Quran. Frank Herbert's imagination takes us through all of these religious orders to show the chaos in our own society's religious failings. All of these religious beliefs have shaped the final religion of Arrakis which is called the religion of the Muad'Dib. Yet, there is still one truly final religion of sorts that has affected the people of Arrakis more than any other spiritual religion and this following is known to many of us as Space Travel. Mankind's movement through deep space amazed the people of Arrakis and slowly these people thought of space travel as a religion and not a science. This is due to actual science of space travel being hidden and portrayed as being mystical. From the idea of space, different churches had their own ideas of creation. The religious faiths have the feeling that the sacred is touched by anarchy from the outer dark, and this outer dark is space. There was never a clear decision on religious matters after space travel was introduced because the individual always had doubts as to the authenticity of the revelation. During this period of space travel, high bishops of the Orange Catholic Bible reinterpreted, Gods word from Genesis and stated it as "Increase and multiply, and fill the universe, and subdue it and rule over all manner of strange beasts and living creatures in the infinite airs, on the infinite earths and beneath them." As technology evolved on Arrakis, so did religion and social behavior. The idea of God being a machine and infinitely logical was overthrown by the masses and a new concept was raised "Man may not be replaced." Throughout the decades, the leaders of the several religions met to exchange views due to all the wars that followed in the name of religion. When interstellar travel was achieved, a new commission was formed known as the