carl sagan

So with Cosmos coming out...thought I'd share how some people reacted to the first Cosmos! http://yankeeskeptic.com/2014/03/02/cosmos-lawsuit-sagan-and-alien-abduction/ this was more of a fun blog post for me, as Betty really did believe Sagan would show her abduction as 'truth".

Hi guys. I hope this is the right forum as I'd considered putting this in general skepticism & paranormal.) No doubt you're all aware of Dr. Steven Greer's Sirius movie project that's soon to come out that will blow the roof off UFOlogy (or, as I saw it put the other day, will act as a...

Very cool move.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2011/08/06/2011-08-06_seth_macfarlane_to_do_sequel_of_carl_sagans_cosmos_set_to_debut_in_2013.html There aren't words to describe the depth of my ambivalence about this. On one hand, it's a sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos, with Sagan's widow Ana...

Oh, goody! Neil deGrasse Tyson is going to do a revivial of Sagan's Cosmos series. Linky to the article on richarddawkins.net. Tyson has done some wonderful TV already, and I try to catch him every time he appears on a show. He's both well-informed and personable. We need him very much (and a...

I have distilled the following discussion from another thread because I feel it is important enough to deserve a thread of its own. Yes, you’re getting close, but strictly speaking there is also no such thing as “good” (or “bad”) evidence either. Evidence is evidence. You either have it or...

http://www.bauleros.org/saganenfermedad.html I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert and afterlife...

Eventually someone here is going to post a thread about the so-called "Science Tarot" I personally have some mixed feelings about it. For one thing there's a Carl Sagan card which some might see as being in poor taste. I just want to get some other member's thoughts on this one...

Sorry for the late notice, I've been away. :) In the latest episode of the BBC Radio series, Great Lives, Brian Cox chooses Carl Sagan as his subject. The programme is downloadable as a podcast for those outside the UK for the next couple of days (it will also be on BBC iplayer for those in...

Or is it always immoral? An interesting take by Sagan: http://www.2think.org/abortion.shtml

William Lane Craig gives counter arguments to the reasoning "If God created the universe, then what created God?" xlzKITZ9ct8 . His first argument sounds very much like the "watchmaker argument". About his second argument, what is even a "mind"? I'd like to read your views on it. BTW, how do...

I'm reading "The Demon Haunted World". It's a wonderful book and it's kept me hooked to it. However, I think I've found the first instance in which Sagan and I may disagree. Regardless, and not to make it sound like an argument from authority, if Sagan supports this notion then maybe there is...

Carl Sagan in one of his books said that evidence for a otherworldly artifact would be the material from which it was made. For instance he said that certain mixtures of metals such as tin and lead which cannot be made on earth but can be made in the weightlessness of space would be evidence...

http://www.carlsaganday.com/ This looks almost at good as a TAM, and just like a TAM, I will be unable to go. I haven't seen it on Swift yet so I'm posting it here nice and early, maybe some of you can take advantage of it.

I've just found this on Pharyngula, I think it's brilliant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc

Watch all 13 parts here: http://www.cosmolearning.com/astronomy/documentaries/cosmos/

I have read a lot of Sagan. However, I have yet been able to underpin whether or not he was an Atheist, and I have come close to the conclusion he was an Agnostic, in the same way DeGrasse Tyson is. Yet he never came out and declared himself an Agnostic or an Atheist, as far as I can see. On...

I just watched this video of Carl Sagan explaining the "Drake Equation" about possible life on other planets in the universe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB_v99FSTYc&NR=1 But much of what he says seem to rely on the presumption that life would evolve like it has on earth. Isn't this subtly...

Look at the things the woo woo believers have to say about him on that site. Just go to the site. Look up carl Sagan and see what they've done. The first two are mine but mine are in support of his atheism. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1347&FLgrid=1347&FLsr=2&

Could use some quick help here. Was it Carl Sagan who said something along the lines of "Keep an open mind, but no so open that your brains fall out" ? I'm pretty sure he did, but haven't been able to find a source. Could someone confirm or correct this? A source would be great too. This is...

A week ago or so I saw this amazing video by Carl Sagan on youtube in which he explains the fourth dimension. It's a beautyfull explanation, very well illustrated and fun to watch. The first time I saw it, I felt a new window had been opened to me. Of course!, the relationship between the 4D...

This is a truly wonderful book about our evolutionary heritage. Based on real scientific research, the process of how the earth was formed and how life on Earth developed is carefully explained in beautiful prose and with a great sense of wonder. The life and work of Charles Darwin is retold...

Why do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? This has got me thinking, and i have asked the question in several places, and no one really seems to know. Now the excellent Linda has demonstrated that this is true in certain types of Bayesian analysis in another thread I think...

Cosmos for Rednecks The history of Earth from an alternatively valid viewpoint.

A few weeks ago I was doing some yard work and a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses stopped by. They were canvassing my neighborhood on a Saturday morning. A teenaged boy began talkiing about their church but after finding out I am an atheist the older gentleman took over. We talked politely for about...

Wow, now that is exciting. Reading one of Dean Radin´s books, The Conscious Universe, I´ve stumbled upon the following report in the introduction of the book (pages 2 and 3): In a 1995 book saturated with piercing skepticism ,the late Carl Sagan of Cornell University maintained his lifelong...

While surfing around for astronomy videos, I somehow stumbled across this on YouTube. The poster apparently thinks an "orb" was captured on the remastered Cosmos DVD series during Ann Druyan's introduction. I'm not quite sure why, but the comments really made me laugh (and, it appears s/he's...

Has anyone here read the "new" Carl Sagan book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God? It's actually a compilation of a series of lectures that he gave in 1985, edited by his widow, Ann Druyan, and released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his...

Has anyone here read the "new" Carl Sagan book, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God? It's actually a compilation of a series of lectures that he gave in 1985, edited by his widow, Ann Druyan, and released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his...

http://www.randi.org/jr/2006-12/122906journalist.html (I would post a link straight to the section of the commentary but it seems to be missing from the top of the page) Does anyone know where I could find a copy of Cosmos on DVD for a reasonable price? Keeping in mind I am a poor college...