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To: Dr. Scarpetta
I miss the old 'NOVA' series with Carl Sagan.

Back then it had shock value, today it doesn't.


10 posted on 11/17/2008 5:08:43 AM PST by SouthDixie (We are but angels with one wing, it takes two to fly.)
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To: SouthDixie
Carl Sagan did Cosmos. Is was a good show and I never missed it. He is often thought to have been an atheist, but he resisted that label, describing himself as more an agnostic. Some quotes:

"Where's the evidence? Now, the word God is used to cover a wide variety of very different ideas, ranging maybe from the idea of an outsized light-skinned male with a long white beard who sits in a throne in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow--for which there is no evidence, none at all--to the view of Einstein, of Spinoza, which is essentially that God is the sum total of the laws of nature. And since there are laws of nature ... if that's what you mean by God, then of course there's a God. So everything depends on the definition of God."

"An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God."

Hopefully he found the answer to his questions.

85 posted on 11/17/2008 7:10:34 AM PST by Clinging Bitterly (Starve the beast.)
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