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Carl Sagan's Religion of Science
A detailed summary of Sagan's personal views on God and God's relationship with science.
For those of you who do not wish to read all of this, I shall provide a summarizing quote, and elaborate with my own thoughts:
And just what is Sagan's answer to the God hypothesis? His famous quote says it all: "The cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be." (7, p. 4) Like the Hebrews' I AM, so is science's COSMOS IS. The only remotely traditional view of God Sagan nods to is Einstein's concept that God is the sum total of the natural laws. Yet Sagan's cosmology is far from a sterile compilation of laws. The answer to the ultimate question of the cosmos (Sagan doesn't define this question any further) is yet to be found, but Sagan is certain that the answer will "resonate with the religious sensibilties of human beings." (3, p. 287)
Thus, to arrive at an answer to the question of the origin and nature of the universe that is both intellectually and religiously satisfying, all we need to do is to keep looking for the facts. Knowledge is at once the ultimate means and the ultimate end.
i.e. - and here are my thoughts on religion. The foundation of the theology of the Western God is "GOD IS." God is existence. To know God is to know existence or -- to know existence is to know God. Science is religion. The answer to all answers, whatever that is, must be one that will fulfill all our own being -- the physical AND the spiritual.
A detailed summary of Sagan's personal views on God and God's relationship with science.
For those of you who do not wish to read all of this, I shall provide a summarizing quote, and elaborate with my own thoughts:
And just what is Sagan's answer to the God hypothesis? His famous quote says it all: "The cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be." (7, p. 4) Like the Hebrews' I AM, so is science's COSMOS IS. The only remotely traditional view of God Sagan nods to is Einstein's concept that God is the sum total of the natural laws. Yet Sagan's cosmology is far from a sterile compilation of laws. The answer to the ultimate question of the cosmos (Sagan doesn't define this question any further) is yet to be found, but Sagan is certain that the answer will "resonate with the religious sensibilties of human beings." (3, p. 287)
Thus, to arrive at an answer to the question of the origin and nature of the universe that is both intellectually and religiously satisfying, all we need to do is to keep looking for the facts. Knowledge is at once the ultimate means and the ultimate end.
i.e. - and here are my thoughts on religion. The foundation of the theology of the Western God is "GOD IS." God is existence. To know God is to know existence or -- to know existence is to know God. Science is religion. The answer to all answers, whatever that is, must be one that will fulfill all our own being -- the physical AND the spiritual.