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I searched for thread titles with Carl Sagan and came up with this decade old beauty on Sagan's foolhardy arrogance:
(3) Where else was Carl Sagan 100% wrong? | US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum
Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
P 20: “Intellectual capacity is no guarantee against being dead wrong.” (We agree. There is, however, widespread hubris exhibited by “intellectuals”, which is virtually synonymous with leftists such as Carl Sagan.)
P 29: “Each plant and animal is exquisitely made; should not a supremely competent Designer have been able to make the intended variety from the start?
(First he claims each plant and animal is exquisitely made and then he challenges the "Designer"'s comptence.)
P 33: “What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other’s exhalations....”
(Should any Christian suggest "marvelous" design, the godless Left will mock and ridicule him for "the argument from incredulity." But when a fellow godless Leftist suggests marvelous design, well that's brilliant, n'est-ce pas?)
(More of Sagan's arguments from incredulity, which is to say in Lefty speak, ignorance.)
P 93: “Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still.”
P 121: (Voyager 2 showed that) “Mars was a place.” (For $265 million, you get such wisdom. And pictures of rocks too. Don’t forget those.)
P 125: “We can be fooled.” (NOOOOOOO ! Scientists? Fooled?)
P 193: We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” (P 289: “The fastest object ever launched by the human species [Voyager] will take tens of thousands of years to go to the nearest star.”)
P 200: “Nothing in physics prevents you from traveling as close to the speed of light as you like.” (Nothing like taking off from the earth with a trillion tons of fuel and oxygen. Nothing like hitting a rock at one-half light speed. Nothing like bringing along LOTS of food. Unbridgeable chasms stand between the theoretical and the realizable.)
P 203: Today we have preliminary designs for ships to take people to the stars. (Project) Orion was designed to utilize explosions of hydrogen bombs against an internal plate . . .” (Made of what? YOU get inside and set off the H bomb.)
P 243: “Our ancestors worshiped the Sun, and they were far from foolish.” (Except for theologians, militarists, nationalists, and other “chauvinists”.)
Ibid: “If we must worship a power greater than ourselves, does it not make sense to revere the Sun and stars?” (Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan Page 32: “We can recognize here a shortcoming [that 70% of people surveyed think the sun is alive]”.)
These are just a few excerpts from one of Carl's many books. All are similarly fraught with errors and self-contradictions which would be mocked by Leftists/atheists had they been written by a Christian apologist. The double standard of the Left is deep and wide. It is a complete work of fiction, rather like Isaac Asimov was, another Leftist/atheist of insufferable arrogance.
(3) Where else was Carl Sagan 100% wrong? | US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum
Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
P 20: “Intellectual capacity is no guarantee against being dead wrong.” (We agree. There is, however, widespread hubris exhibited by “intellectuals”, which is virtually synonymous with leftists such as Carl Sagan.)
P 29: “Each plant and animal is exquisitely made; should not a supremely competent Designer have been able to make the intended variety from the start?
(First he claims each plant and animal is exquisitely made and then he challenges the "Designer"'s comptence.)
P 33: “What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other’s exhalations....”
(Should any Christian suggest "marvelous" design, the godless Left will mock and ridicule him for "the argument from incredulity." But when a fellow godless Leftist suggests marvelous design, well that's brilliant, n'est-ce pas?)
(More of Sagan's arguments from incredulity, which is to say in Lefty speak, ignorance.)
P 93: “Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still.”
P 121: (Voyager 2 showed that) “Mars was a place.” (For $265 million, you get such wisdom. And pictures of rocks too. Don’t forget those.)
P 125: “We can be fooled.” (NOOOOOOO ! Scientists? Fooled?)
P 193: We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.” (P 289: “The fastest object ever launched by the human species [Voyager] will take tens of thousands of years to go to the nearest star.”)
P 200: “Nothing in physics prevents you from traveling as close to the speed of light as you like.” (Nothing like taking off from the earth with a trillion tons of fuel and oxygen. Nothing like hitting a rock at one-half light speed. Nothing like bringing along LOTS of food. Unbridgeable chasms stand between the theoretical and the realizable.)
P 203: Today we have preliminary designs for ships to take people to the stars. (Project) Orion was designed to utilize explosions of hydrogen bombs against an internal plate . . .” (Made of what? YOU get inside and set off the H bomb.)
P 243: “Our ancestors worshiped the Sun, and they were far from foolish.” (Except for theologians, militarists, nationalists, and other “chauvinists”.)
Ibid: “If we must worship a power greater than ourselves, does it not make sense to revere the Sun and stars?” (Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan Page 32: “We can recognize here a shortcoming [that 70% of people surveyed think the sun is alive]”.)
These are just a few excerpts from one of Carl's many books. All are similarly fraught with errors and self-contradictions which would be mocked by Leftists/atheists had they been written by a Christian apologist. The double standard of the Left is deep and wide. It is a complete work of fiction, rather like Isaac Asimov was, another Leftist/atheist of insufferable arrogance.