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February 27, 2007

A great blog, a great video and it's time to stare at that dot again

New video to watch and new link added. Cracking video that shows how inspirational the link between rational thinking, science and progressive politics can be - huge hat tip the Pharyngula blog which covers with high quality posting the interaction between science, politics and religion - and was added to the freethinking allowed links today. The video is based on some of Carl Sagan's writings...enjoy:

"Stare at the dot(Earth) for any length of time and try to convince yourself that God created the whole universe for one of the 10 million or so species of life that inhabits that speck of dust...imagine that everything was made just for a single shade of that species, or gender, or ethnic or religion subdivision. If doesn't strike you as unlikely, pick another dot Imagine it to be inhabited by a different form of intelligent life. They, too, cherish the notion of a God who has created everything for their benefit. How seriously do you take their claim?."

Posted at 07:31 PM in Science, Weblogs |

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