Except for a few sentences, this is great. But the following is complete and utter horseshit! One mistake Druyan never makes, either in “Cosmos” or anywhere else, is the arrogant historicism sometimes displayed by Richard Dawkins and other prominent scientific atheists. By that I mean the quasi-religious assumption that we stand at a uniquely privileged position of near-perfect scientific knowledge, with just a few blanks to fill in before we understand everything about the universe. I have never heard Dawkins or any other prominent scientist, regardless of religious disposition, claim or even say anything that could be construed as a claim that we are even remotely close to understanding everything about the universe. This is essentially slander. They all pretty much say quite the opposite. At the same time, they recognize that what we do know shows many previous assumptions to be unfounded and often clearly false.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 01:40:22 +0000