Carl Sagan

Thursday, February 22, 2007

This is from a Carl Sagan essay given in 1985.

Carl Sagan on the failure of many religions to consider the rest of the universe

February 22nd, 2007 by Erich Vieth Carl Sagan's new article can be found in the March/April 2007 edition of Skeptical Inquirer. It is titled "Science's Vast Cosmic Perspective Eludes Religion." Well, okay. As you know, Carl Sagan died of pneumonia in 1996. This "new" article was actually prepared by Ann Druyan, based on lectures Sagan gave in 1985. Sagan begins the article by pointing out that there are more galaxies in the universe than there are stars in the Milky Way. This, he finds, is "a useful calibration of our place in the universe." Nonetheless, virtually no religion has taken into account "this vast number of worlds [or] the enormous scale of the universe."

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