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César Barroso

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Carl Sagan died an atheist, I imagine his meeting with God went as follows:

Carl:
who the hell are you?
God:
oh Carl, you spent your life looking me in the eye, and still you don't know me?
Carl:
wait, what?
EDIT:
CARL SAGAN WASN'T AN ATHEIST, HE WAS JUST HEAVILY CRITICAL OF CONSERVATIVE RELIGIOUS CURRENTS, WHICH IS AWESOME. ALSO THAT MAKES THIS JOKE RETARDED AND UNFUNNY. SORRY GUYS. FOR THE RECORD I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT CARL SAGAN IS AWESOME. Also, I believe in God.

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If the light we receive from the stars is millions of years old, and we see them now as they were then, and they could even be long extinct in what we call the present; that means that as light from the sun reflects off our planet, images of our existence, of you and me, of all of us, will travel to the ends of the universe for hundreds of millions of years after we die. All of our faces, colors, stories will travel for ever into the unknown darkness that is the universe… In a sense, we will live for ever. How is this not fucking awesome?

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The misconception that one always has to choose between science and religion is incorrect. Of course, some religious beliefs explicitly contradict science (e.g., the belief that the world and all life on it was created in six literal days); however, most religious groups have no conflict with the theory of evolution or other scientific findings. In fact, many religious people, including theologians, feel that a deeper understanding of nature actually enriches their faith. Moreover, in the scientific community there are thousands of scientists who are devoutly religious and also accept evolution.

The misconception that one always has to choose between science and religion is incorrect. Of course, some religious beliefs explicitly contradict science (e.g., the belief that the world and all life on it was created in six literal days); however, most religious groups have no conflict with the theory of evolution or other scientific findings. In fact, many religious people, including theologians, feel that a deeper understanding of nature actually enriches their faith. Moreover, in the scientific community there are thousands of scientists who are devoutly religious and also accept evolution.

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it’s far more impressive to discover a God who brings galaxies and planets and gorillas and paramecia into existence by simply letting physical laws “set in stone” from the very beginning of time run their course and shape our universe than to think of a “mechanic” God who has to personally wire and configure every species that he sets in motion.
Father Shane

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If there’s anything I’ve taken from this horrible Physical Anthropology class, it’s that people really shouldn’t engage in serious discussions about evolution without having taken a college-level class or having read a qualified book on the subject.

Also, I believe that creationism (not the hyper conservative bible belt type) and evolution are not mutually exclusive.

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