Wednesday, December 20, 2006
God as the machine
Carl Sagan said, on the topic of religion:"The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."From this page, #7, and widely reproduced across the internets, although I cannot find a proper reference for it. I'll update this post once I do.
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Let me add a great quote - more up my alley - from Dr. Carl Sagan....
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Yay!
But to add context to that quote and mine, let me add, from "The Burden of Skepticism":
"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."
But to add context to that quote and mine, let me add, from "The Burden of Skepticism":
"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true."
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