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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Daily Quiz

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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