Thursday, February 16, 2012

Non-Rational Atheism


Carl Sagan created a TV series about the universe entitled “Cosmos.” He later wrote a book with the same title based on the series. The premise of both the TV show and the book is Sagan’s pronouncement that “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.” The unmistakable implication of this quasi-religious slogan is that there is no supernatural God. The book Cosmology: A Very Short Introduction begins with a similar presumption. The author defines “cosmology” as the study of everything but he never mentions God. In both cases, atheism is simply presupposed without argument.

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