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There is the deep and appealing notion that the universe is but the dream of the god who, after a hundred Brahma years, dissolves himself into a drea… - Carl Sagan
" "There is the deep and appealing notion that the universe is but the dream of the god who, after a hundred Brahma years, dissolves himself into a dreamless sleep. The universe dissolves with him — until, after another Brahma century, he stirs, recomposes himself and begins again to dream the great cosmic dream. Meanwhile, elsewhere, there are an infinite number of other universes, each with its own god dreaming the cosmic dream. These great ideas are tempered by another, perhaps still greater. It is said that men may not be the dreams of the gods, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.
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About Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (9 November 1934 – 20 December 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by radiation. Sagan assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. Sagan argued the hypothesis, accepted since, that the high surface temperatures of Venus can be attributed to, and calculated using, the greenhouse effect. He testified to the US Congress in 1985 that the greenhouse effect will change the earth's climate system.
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«قد يجادل أحد، بأن الدجلنة يجري اعتناقها على نحو يتناسب طرديًا وبدقة مع عدم فهم العلم الحقيقي فإذا كنت لم تسمع عن العلم مطلقًا (ناهيك عن الطريقة التي يسير بها)، فستكون بالكاد قادرًا على الوعي بأنك تعتنق الدجلنة. وما تفعله ببساطة هو التفكير بإحدى الطرق التي يُفكر بها البشر دائمًا. فالأديان غالبًا ما تكون بمثابة الحضانات التي تحميها الدولة كي تترعرع داخلها الدجلنة، رغم عدم وجود سبب يضطر الدين إلى لعب هذا الدور. فهذا الدور إلى حد ما شيء اصطنعه الإنسان منذ عصور موغلة في القدم. ففي بعض البلاد، يعتقد الجميع، تقريبًا، في التنجيم والمعرفة المسبقة بالأحداث، بما في ذلك زعماء الحكومات. غير أن هذا لم يقحم على عقولهم ببساطة بفعل الدين، وإنما هذا الإيمان بالتنجيم مستمد من الثقافة المحيطة التي يستريح فيها الجميع إلى هذه الممارسات، والشواهد التي تؤكد ذلك توجد في كل مكان.»
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution encourages a diversity of religions but does not prohibit criticism of religion. In fact it protects and encourages criticism of religion. Religions ought to be subject to at least the same degree of skepticism as, for example, contentions about UFO visitations or Velikovskian catastrophism. I think it is healthy for the religions themselves to foster skepticism about the fundamental underpinnings of their evidential bases. There is no question that religion provides a solace and support, a bulwark in time of emotional need, and can serve extremely useful social roles. But it by no means follows that religion should be immune from testing, from critical scrutiny, from skepticism. It is striking how little skeptical discussion of religion there is in the nation that Tom Paine, the author of The Age of Reason, helped to found. I hold that belief systems that cannot survive scrutiny are probably not worth having.
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