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Carl Sagan was also an avid [[marijuana]] smoker who claimed marijuana gave him scientific insights.<ref>http://cosmologytalk.tribe.net/thread/7e25b81c-2529-44c6-b388-f926c2475e6a</ref>  

Carl Sagan was also an avid [[marijuana]] smoker who claimed marijuana gave him scientific insights.<ref>http://cosmologytalk.tribe.net/thread/7e25b81c-2529-44c6-b388-f926c2475e6a</ref>  

Sagan's avid pot smoking and atheism no doubt inspired Sagan's atheistic [[pseudoscience]] fantasies that he foisted on his gullible fans.  For example, Sagan alleged that [[evolution]] was a "fact".<ref>http://www.creationdefense.org/57.htm</ref> In addition, Sagan advocated the boondoggle of taxpayer funded exobiology research. Given that [http://www.conservapedia.com/Communism#Communism_and_militant_atheism many atheists embraced communism] and continue to hold the spurious notion of [[abiogenesis]], it is not surprising that many atheists embraced Sagan's pseudoscience (see also: [[Causes of atheism]]).  

Sagan's avid pot smoking and atheism no doubt inspired Sagan's atheistic [[pseudoscience]] fantasies that he foisted on his gullible fans.  For example, Sagan alleged that [[evolution]] was a "fact".<ref>http://www.creationdefense.org/57.htm</ref> In addition, as noted earlier Sagan advocated the boondoggle of taxpayer funded exobiology research. Given that [http://www.conservapedia.com/Communism#Communism_and_militant_atheism many atheists embraced communism] and continue to hold the spurious notion of [[abiogenesis]], it is not surprising that many atheists embraced Sagan's pseudoscience (see also: [[Causes of atheism]]).  

Professor Sagan, like many [[liberal]] scientists throughout the 20th century, believed that intelligent life may exist on planets other than Earth.  <blockquote>"The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history," Sagan declared.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/20/sagan/ Norma Quarles, "Carl Sagan Dies at 62," CNN.com 20 Dec. 1996.]</ref></blockquote>

Professor Sagan, like many [[liberal]] scientists throughout the 20th century, believed that intelligent life may exist on planets other than Earth.  <blockquote>"The significance of a finding that there are other beings who share this universe with us would be absolutely phenomenal, it would be an epochal event in human history," Sagan declared.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/US/9612/20/sagan/ Norma Quarles, "Carl Sagan Dies at 62," CNN.com 20 Dec. 1996.]</ref></blockquote>