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Though he was never vocal against religion, he had little tolerance for those he viewed as crackpots, such as strict creationists, and viewed Judaism and Christianity both as mythologies comparable to Greek myth and other folklore. Despite this, he viewed the Bible itself as a notable work of literature, publishing several nonfiction books about both the [[Bible]] and the [[Book of Ruth]], among others.  According to The Cryonics Society, Asimov said of [[cryonics]] (a non-theistic [[pseudoscience]] which attempts to extend life after a person is legally dead), "Though no one can quantify the probability of cryonics working, I estimate it is at least 90%..."<ref>[http://www.cryonicssociety.org/aboutcryonics_critics.html Cryonics and critics], The Cryonics Society</ref> See: [[Atheism and cryonics]]
 
Though he was never vocal against religion, he had little tolerance for those he viewed as crackpots, such as strict creationists, and viewed Judaism and Christianity both as mythologies comparable to Greek myth and other folklore. Despite this, he viewed the Bible itself as a notable work of literature, publishing several nonfiction books about both the [[Bible]] and the [[Book of Ruth]], among others.  According to The Cryonics Society, Asimov said of [[cryonics]] (a non-theistic [[pseudoscience]] which attempts to extend life after a person is legally dead), "Though no one can quantify the probability of cryonics working, I estimate it is at least 90%..."<ref>[http://www.cryonicssociety.org/aboutcryonics_critics.html Cryonics and critics], The Cryonics Society</ref> See: [[Atheism and cryonics]]
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The works which tend to be most strongly associated with him remain ''I, Robot'', a collection of his short stories about the existential dichotomy of artificial intelligence (which was somewhat less-than-faithfully recreated in the Hollywood title of the same name starring [[Will Smith]]), as well as the Foundation series, a work sometimes viewed as the first in the genre of "future histories". He died on April 6, 1992 of complications due to [[AIDS]], which he contracted via a tainted blood transfusion during a heart bypass operation.
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The works which tend to be most strongly associated with him remain ''I, Robot'', a collection of his short stories about the existential dichotomy of artificial intelligence (which was somewhat less-than-faithfully recreated in the Hollywood title of the same name starring [[Will Smith]]), as well as the Foundation series, a work sometimes viewed as the first in the genre of "future histories". One of the more dominant characters in that series was his ''Mule'' character. He died on April 6, 1992 of complications due to [[AIDS]], which he contracted via a tainted blood transfusion during a heart bypass operation.
    
== Isaac Asimov and atheism/agnosticism ==
 
== Isaac Asimov and atheism/agnosticism ==
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