[-YYZ-]

I suggest you read "Contact" and tell me that Sagan didn't at least consider the possibility of a greater power.

[AndyTheBear]

I didn't read the book, only saw the movie. Which included a higher power, but not a transcendent one. Which seems consistent with his opening the famous "Cosmos" series with something like: The cosmos, everything that ever was, everything that is, and everything that ever will be.

I recall the Jodie Foster character, who was throughly noble and and had decisively earned the honor to be the one chosen to attempt contact, was passed over in favor of a total A-hole who had obstructed her research at every turn during the previous years. The decisive factor being prejudice against her because she was an atheist.

Was this blatant emotional manipulation also in the book?

[stormer]

“Contact” is a novel; “Demon Haunted World” is nonfiction. Did the guy that wrote “King Kong” think there really were giant apes? I don’t think so.

[stormer]

“Contact” is a novel; “Demon Haunted World” is nonfiction. Did the guy that wrote “King Kong” think there really were giant apes? I don’t think so.

[stormer]

“Contact” is a novel; “Demon Haunted World” is nonfiction. Did the guy that wrote “King Kong” think there really were giant apes? I don’t think so.