Sunday marked the 80th birthday of Carl Sagan, the spiritual scientist. Author James Croft writes that Sagan, who died in 1996 at age 62, found science to be a profoundly spiritual pursuit.<\/p>\n
For Sagan, science was not just a technical pursuit, nor was it simply about the discovery of new facts, Croft writes. <\/p>\n
I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship, Sagan wrote in The Varieties of Scientific Experience. <\/p>\n
Croft writes, \"This may be surprising to some, but one of the foremost icons of todays rationalist movement believed passionately that to preclude spirituality from a relationship with science was to demean science, as well as spirituality.\" <\/p>\n
But here is Sagan's definition of Nature (with a capital N): reverence; awe; celebration; magnificence; intricacy; beauty; soaring; elation; humility; joining and merging with the Cosmos. <\/p>\n
Sagans spiritual approach to science, Croft writes in a Religion News Service piece, is important for atheists, skeptics, and Humanists to rememberbecause it offers a different view of the relationship between science and religion than the battleground itis so often portrayed as today. <\/p>\n
Read the rest of the story here: http:\/\/chrisstedman.religionnews.com\/2014\/11\/09\/atheists-carl-sagan-lead\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n More here:<\/p>\n Carl Sagan: the spiritual scientist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sunday marked the 80th birthday of Carl Sagan, the spiritual scientist. Author James Croft writes that Sagan, who died in 1996 at age 62, found science to be a profoundly spiritual pursuit Continue reading