Post by Walt_MOn Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:41:09 -0600, "sambodidley"
Post by sambodidleyPost by Walt_MOn Thu, 14 Nov 2013 15:22:52 -0600, "sambodidley"
Post by sambodidleyOn Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:18:53 -0800 (PST), Mad Mike
Post by Mad MikeCompletely OT but interesting
3 minute video
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/11/93638-3-minute-video-will-make-problem-seem-astonishingly-trivial/
Brilliant !!! Thanks for sharing that, Mike. :-)
Of course you do realise that it's traitorous, pacifist, communist
propaganda, don't you. We'll now have to kill Sagan.
Oops! To late for that. Dog done did it.<g>
Oops... Didn't know he had died. May he rest in peace.
Can a dead dude rest any other way? <g>
Well, I'm told by those who claim to know about these things, that you
can end up in a place called Hell when you die.
I imagine there'd be not a lot of peace in such a place.
What with Sagan bein' a God-fearin' Christian an' all, an' all those
pacifist-haters wishin' him to Hell, I was just wishin' for him not to
go there... If you don't mind... :-))))
Not sure you could call him a God-fearin' Christian!
From Wikipedia...
Sagan wrote frequently about religion and the relationship between religion
and science, expressing his skepticism about the conventional
conceptualization of God as a sapient being. For example:
Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white
beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying
the fall of every sparrow. Others-for example Baruch Spinoza and Albert
Einstein-considered God to be essentially the sum total of the physical laws
which describe the universe. I do not know of any compelling evidence for
anthropomorphic patriarchs controlling human destiny from some hidden
celestial vantage point, but it would be madness to deny the existence of
physical laws.[50]
In another description of his view on the concept of God, Sagan emphatically
writes:
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits
in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God
one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly
there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying ... it does not
make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.[51]
On atheism, Sagan commented in 1981:
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who
has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such
compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places
and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the
universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of
the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me
to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and
uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.[52]