April 3
1. What else was Darwin's insight besides good science, to Carl Sagan?
2. What was CS's view of scientism and Russell's response to the "will to believe"? What did he admire about Wm James?
3. How did CS define superstition, & religion?
4. What sort of implications are entailed by our sun's finitude?
5. What's cruel about an immortal Creator?
6. What "dangerous fatalism" lurks in the anthropic principle of life?
7. What's the point of Rupert Brooke's "Heaven"?
8. Favorite Proverbs (etc.)?
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1. (x) 2. (xi; xv) 3. (1) 4. (20, 28) 5. (29) 6. (55, 59) 7. (60-1) 8. (64.4, 69.5, 74.4, 81.1, 84.7, 99.11, 99.18, 117.8, 136.4, 140.6
ALSO OF NOTE:
pale blue dot-xii
Science as "informed worship"-xiii
advocacy + respect, tenderness-xiv
CS's "varieties"-xv
"don't stop"-xvi
"cosmic religious feeling"-2
Immense scale of universe not taken into acct by any religion-27
Tom Paine, God too small-30
universe not responsive-37
Barrow, anthropic prin-57
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