Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Book report: The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan
As if reaching out from the beyond ... Ann Druyan, Carl Sagan's long time partner has edited and released a compilation of his 1985 Gifford lectures. In it Dr. Sagan touches on God from a cosmic point of view, he wants to believe in God but the God of the Bible is just too small. Why would God be bothered with a little planet like earth when he has a whole universe, billions of light years in size, to tinker with. Why would man be made in Gods image?? Why would God need nostrils or a navel???
One of my favorite segments has been:
"And the extinction of the dinosaurs seems to have been caused by an immense collision by an asteroid or a cometary nucleus ... and had that not happened, maybe I would be ten feet tall with green scales and sharp pointy teeth, and you would be similarly tall and green and pointy-toothed. We would both likely consider ourselves extremely attractive. What handsome fellows we are."
The book is a really, really, easy read and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the cosmos, Carl Sagan, or how God can fit into our universe.
#posted by Rob Roschewsk @ 9:26 PM