![]() ![]() In this sense Sagan turns the standard argument on its head, rather than faith based beliefs offering comfort, they actually present a series of demons and therefore make your life a much more frightening place than it would have been if you had just confronted reality in the first place. He feared for our future, particularly in a modern world brimming with nuclear weapons when so many people know nothing at all about science. Sagan understood the infinite joy that comes from understanding something about the world - something that is real. Well, Sagan gives a powerful answer here. ![]() Many people say things like, "I've no idea how people without a belief in the supernatural can bare to live in this world". Now that was one of the truly great science documentaries and one that, on the subject of physics, has rarely been bettered. ![]() Sagan has been a hero of mine since I saw Cosmos years and years ago. ![]()
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