Thursday saw a small social gathering of four friends, but also an event that I’d like to dub the first official “Think Too Much” gathering. (Yuck, I need a better name for that.) Oh, and no, it wasn’t official at all, it really was just a couple of friends that joined me as I was [...]
Entries Tagged with 'Carl Sagan'
The First TTM Gathering: Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, Episodes 1 to 3
May 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Categories: Religion and Science
Tags: Carl Sagan · Cosmos · Education · Evolution · Gathering
The 123 Meme: The Demon-Haunted World
February 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments
The Friendly Humanist tagged me with this Internet Blog meme. Here are the rules, to be bent only slightly by me:
Pick up the book nearest you with at least 123 pages. (No cheating!)
Turn to page 123.
Count the first five sentences.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five other bloggers.
I don’t call the stuff that I see nearest [...]
Categories: Worldviews
Tags: Carl Sagan · Meme
Is CMI Scientifically Illiterate? (3 of 12)
October 2nd, 2007 · 10 Comments
Gary Bates spent three hours talking about “science”, using “science” to pull the wool over his sheep’s eyes. When I asked him “what is science?”, the best he could come up with, was “nobody really knows”. Yes, nobody knows, that’s what he said. I asked the whole “panel” at the seminar, “please tell me what [...]
Categories: Religion and Science
Tags: Carl Sagan · Creationism · Science
Carl Sagan Books and DVDs
August 22nd, 2007 · 4 Comments
I am now the proud owner of two Carl Sagan books, The Demon Haunted World (Amazon, Kalahari) and Billions and Billions (Amazon, Kalahari), as well as Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, a set of seven DVDs (Amazon).
As my time is limited, I will probably not be reading or watching any of it, until October. Still, it was [...]
Categories: Religion and Science · Technology
Tags: Books · Carl Sagan · Movies


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