![]() ![]() Because what Sagan had to say has affected everyone, in both categories.Īnd it’s through engagement with those whose ways of thinking are different from ours that we develop mutual understanding, appreciation, and I daresay mutual benefit in moving beyond the world in which we now find ourselves. Whichever category you are in, I hope that everyone reading this will seek ways to discuss the subject with friends, family, and co-workers who are in the other category. Those who haven’t developed that understanding may struggle to recognize Sagan’s concern. ![]() ![]() Those in the first category of people, those who ‘ get’ this about science, will immediately understand what Sagan was worried about when we get to his words below. I’m not attacking anybody’s religious faith.īack to science as a process for discovering truth. Science can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God. This is not a conversation about faith or spirituality. Our individual understanding of science divides us into two categories: those who understand science as a process for discovering truth (that is, as more than the body of knowledge discovered by that process ), and those who don’t.īefore I get attacked for being a godless atheist, let me assert that science only concerns itself with falsifiable theories about the predicability of the observable universe. Dear readers, I want to talk with you today about something Carl Sagan wrote in his book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, published 21 years ago this month. ![]()
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