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New page: The '''Butterfly effect''', often witnessed in secular science fiction stories, describes the possibility of a person traveling back in time, and inadvertently changing some minisc...
The '''Butterfly effect''', often witnessed in [[secular]] [[science fiction]] stories, describes the possibility of a person traveling back in time, and inadvertently changing some miniscule thing in the past — such as [[murder|killing]] a [[butterfly]] — that has momentous consequences as time goes by, so that the he returns to a radically altered [[future]].
Most agree that this scenario is not only patently absurd, but harmful to the development and upbringing of [[children]] and other like-minded individuals. The [[Bible]] describes only [[Jesus]]<ref>"Before [[Abraham]] was born, I am", [[John]] 8:58</ref> and [[God]]<ref>"I the LORD do not change", [[Malachi]] 3:6</ref> as capable of [[time travel]]. Despite this assertion, the Butterfly Effect makes appearances in many [[Hollywood values|Hollywood]] films (most of which have been condemned by the [[Vatican]]), including:
*''[[It's A Wonderful Life]]''
*''[[Back To The Future]]''
*''[[Frequency]]''
*''[[The Butterfly Effect]]''
The Butterfly effect was also a central theme of Isaac Asimov's [[short story]] "A Sound of Thunder", in which a man travels back in time to hunt [[dinosaur]]s, and inadvertently shoots a butterfly by mistake. This scenario, while plausible enough as a science fiction story, could certainly never happen in real life.
==See also==
*[[Time travel]]
==References==
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[[Category:Fiction]]
Most agree that this scenario is not only patently absurd, but harmful to the development and upbringing of [[children]] and other like-minded individuals. The [[Bible]] describes only [[Jesus]]<ref>"Before [[Abraham]] was born, I am", [[John]] 8:58</ref> and [[God]]<ref>"I the LORD do not change", [[Malachi]] 3:6</ref> as capable of [[time travel]]. Despite this assertion, the Butterfly Effect makes appearances in many [[Hollywood values|Hollywood]] films (most of which have been condemned by the [[Vatican]]), including:
*''[[It's A Wonderful Life]]''
*''[[Back To The Future]]''
*''[[Frequency]]''
*''[[The Butterfly Effect]]''
The Butterfly effect was also a central theme of Isaac Asimov's [[short story]] "A Sound of Thunder", in which a man travels back in time to hunt [[dinosaur]]s, and inadvertently shoots a butterfly by mistake. This scenario, while plausible enough as a science fiction story, could certainly never happen in real life.
==See also==
*[[Time travel]]
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Fiction]]