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Most scientists are ready to answer research questions from other members of their field. Rather, only a few prepare themselves to answer questions from the public about what Douglas Adams called about life, the universe and everything. Karl Sagan was one of the minorities and an expert “science communicator” before scientific communication became recognized as a discipline in itself. Especially popular books and television works. Cosmos And the accompanying series Cosmos: Personal voyagehe put himself in the mass media as a passionate guide to all of the known realms beyond our planets. A small number of members of his audience may have asked themselves where God fits all of this.
One such person actually said the question to Sagan in a session after the Q&A. The latter “Lost Lecture” at Cornell in 1994entitled “Age of Exploration.” The questioner, who is a graduate student, asks, “Do you have a God kind? Yes, we are just sitting in the middle of the ocean on this planet, do we have a purpose?”
In response to this challenging series of investigations, Sagan opens up the more difficult. “What does it mean when you use the word god?” the student takes another tack and asks, “Give me all these demots.” Sagan himself is defined as the constant humility of human self-image in light of new scientific discoveries. Sagan returns with yet another question: “If we blow up ourselves, will it disprove God’s existence?” The student admits that he is presuming that it is not.
This question ends up being Sagan, considering how the word “God” covers a vast range of different ideas. The range is that Sagan “don’t know of God like God that Einstein and Spinoza spoke of because of his existence “from a giant skinned man with a long white beard to a busy tally of every sparrow fall, sitting on an empty throne.” There is also a “god of God that many of the founding fathers of this country believed in.” With such a wide range of possible definitions, the concept of God itself is useless except for “social lubrication,” which appears to “consent with someone else you don’t agree with.” That kind of adaptable type of condition has their advantage, if not scientific mind.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
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