The God hypothesis: Carl Sagan.(Excerpt)

From: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) | Date: March 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Editor's note: The following excerpt is from Chapter 6, "The God Hypothesis," from The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, by Carl Sagan, edited by Ann Druyan. Each of the chapters represents a lightly-edited transcript from the original lectures written and presented by Carl Sagan at the University of Glasgow for the 1985 Gifford Lectures on Natural Theology. This series has hosted some of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, including Arthur Eddington, Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Alfred North Whitehead, and Albert Schweitzer. In ...

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