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In addition, as noted earlier Sagan advocated the boondoggle of taxpayer funded exobiology research. Given that many liberals embraced [[communism]] and continue to hold the spurious notion of [[abiogenesis]], it is not surprising that many agnostics and atheists embraced Sagan's pseudoscience (see also: [[Causes of atheism]]).
In addition, as noted earlier Sagan advocated the boondoggle of taxpayer funded exobiology research. Given that many liberals embraced [[communism]] and continue to hold the spurious notion of [[abiogenesis]], it is not surprising that many agnostics and atheists embraced Sagan's pseudoscience (see also: [[Causes of atheism]]).
== Sagan's contradictory statements regarding atheism/agnosticism ==
On atheism, Sagan commented in 1981: <blockquote>An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.<ref name="Sagan2006">[[#Head|Head 2006]], [http://books.google.com/books?id=gJ1rDj2nR3EC&pg=PA70 p. 70]</ref></blockquote>
[[Creation Ministries International]]'s article on atheism declares:
{{cquote|By “nature worship” and “neo-paganism” I refer to the atheist’s tendency to replace a sense of awe of God and seeking transcendence by relating to God with seeking awe and transcendence in nature. This natural high, as it were, is not merely enjoyed but it is enjoined and said to be holier than theism.
Referring to our ability to “step off the Earth and look back at ourselves,” as was done in Voyager 2, [[Carl Sagan]] stated,
“I find that a chilling, spine-tingling, exciting, perspective-raising, consciousness-raising experience. It’s said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience.”7
The very first episode of his televised series entitled Cosmos, began with Carl Sagan stating,
“The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as of a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.”
Presupposing a God-free reality, why atheists seek transcendent experiences remains unanswered.<ref>[http://creation.com/atheism Atheism]</ref>}}
== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Sagan was married three times and divorced twice.
Sagan was married three times and divorced twice.
==Scientific Accomplishments==
==Scientific Accomplishments==