Topics:<\/b> Apologetics; Atheism; Belief; Death; Despair; Faith; Knowledge; Naturalism; Science; Skepticism<\/p>\n
Reference:<\/b> John 20:29<\/p>\n
Carl Sagan was fascinated that educated adults, with the wonders of science manifest all around them, could cling to beliefs based on the unverifiable testimony of observers dead for two thousand years.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re so smart, why do you believe in God?\u201d he once asked cleric Joan Brown Campbell. She found this a surprising question from someone who had no trouble accepting the existence of black holes, which no one has ever observed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re so smart, why don\u2019t you believe in God?\u201d she answered.<\/p>\n
Sagan never wavered in his agnosticism, even when he was dying. \u201cThere was no deathbed conversion,\u201d his wife, Ann Druyan, says. \u201cNo appeals to God, no hope for an afterlife, no pretending that he and I, who had been inseparable for twenty years, were not saying good-bye forever.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDidn\u2019t he want to believe?\u201d someone asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarl never wanted to believe,\u201d she said fiercely. \u201cHe wanted to know<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Jerry Adler, \u201cUnbeliever\u2019s Quest,\u201d Newsweek<\/i> (March 31, 1997)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Topics: Apologetics; Atheism; Belief; Death; Despair; Faith; Knowledge; Naturalism; Science; Skepticism Reference: John 20:29 Carl Sagan was fascinated that educated adults, with the wonders of science manifest all around them, could cling to beliefs based on the unverifiable testimony of observers dead for two thousand years. \u201cYou\u2019re so smart, why do you believe in God?\u201d … Continue reading “UNBELIEVING
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