Saturday, November 7, 2009

Carl Sagan Day

Happened to notice on Pharyngula today that it is Carl Sagan Day. As I've noted before I am a big fan of Carl and it is nice to see his memory celebrated. The first annual Carl Sagan Day activities are being hosted by Broward College in Florida this year. Sounds like a fine line-up of speakers they have over there. Remember tonight to look up at the sky and be awed by the cosmos...
Posted by Wade G. at 7:35 AM

2 comments:

Robin Edgar said...

I'll take Carl Sagan over the intolerant and obnoxious "fundamentalist atheist" P. Z. Myers ANY day. I could be mistaken but I am pretty sure that the (thankfully) inimitable P. Z. Myers has honored me by banning me from posting comments to his Pharyngula blog. Carl Sagan was my kind of atheist and stands head and shoulders above P. Z. Myers, Richard Dawkins and any number of other "New Atheists". AFAIAC Carl Sagan put the *human* in humanist, I can't say the same for ANY "New Atheist". . .

November 7, 2009 9:27 PM
Chris said...

Based upon the movie 'Contact,' I have to wonder if Sagan was really an atheist or not. Maybe he was simply atheistic about fundamentalist versions of God? I have to wonder what he would think about contemporary process philosophy which seems to truly value all the mystery involved in what it means to be human trying to reckon with Mystery these days, whatever we may end up finally defining Mystery to be from our unavoidable perspectival viewpoints as individual human beings.

November 9, 2009 9:08 AM

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