Who's an atheist?

[adelaidesean]

A while back, I had an interesting online discussion about whether the supernatural and Doctor Who are antithetical (triggered by this article and featuring no less eminences than angriest and mondyboy, among others). I'm now writing up the thoughts prompted by that discussion into an autobiographical essay on my relationship with atheism, and I have a couple of questions for the Whovians among my readers:

What stories can you think of that contain references to God, the Devil, or other supernatural beings? "The Daemons" and "The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit" come immediately to mind, for instance. Are there any more?

There have been numerous mentions of the Doctor being a lonely god in recent series (not to mention the very Christ-like ending of season three). I haven't had the time to go back and watch all the episodes to see when they occur. Does anyone out there have an encyclopaedic knowledge of this kind of thing to save me having to, like, research? :-)

Comments

[mondyboy.livejournal.com]

Curse of Fenric has faith as its core theme - not just religious faith, but that's part of it.

Kinda of course plays with the ideas of religion as well, in a colonial context.

But neither of those examples really answer your question. The fact is, there have been very few references to God or angels etc in the show itself. But then, that's why I think Satan Pit is so interesting.

[seanwilliams.livejournal.com]

It certainly is an interesting topic. Thanks for your help talking it through. My opinions are very strong on this subject, and I'm dismayed to see that there's so little justification behind them! :-)

I should probably perform a parallel search, looking for the many instances of the scientific method at work in the show, but that could take forever...