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Dude
SFN Die Hard

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Posted - 10/09/2010 :  08:32:20  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I'm sure this has been posted here before, and that most of you have read it. I have read it several times, but stumbled into it again today and read it again. As always, Sagan is amazing to read.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/saganbur.htm


Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth

Kil
Evil Skeptic

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Posted - 10/09/2010 :  09:44:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Kil's Homepage  Send Kil an AOL message  Send Kil a Yahoo! Message Send Kil a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dude

I'm sure this has been posted here before, and that most of you have read it. I have read it several times, but stumbled into it again today and read it again. As always, Sagan is amazing to read.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/saganbur.htm


The Burden of Skepticism is my favorite Sagan essay. I quote from it often!

All of his CFI essays and articles about him are available at the CFI site now. I haven't time but I will get a link to it later. I posted it in a recent Skeptic Summary as an "Evil Pick."

Here it is:

http://www.csicop.org/specialcollections/show/carl_sagan_collection/

Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.

Why not question something for a change?

Genetic Literacy Project
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