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"15 billion years in 12 months"

we still have time to change
Inspired by the words of Carl sagan as he presented to
the world in 1991, the most distant image of earth ever taken
at 4 billion miles by voyager.
That image and all it invokes,   more...should be our only religion  less

inspired by carl sagan and anne druyan, this video features images from voyager, cassini and hubble, finishing off with three views of our fragile pale blue dot.
the music is dj madson's 'blood sacrifice   more...ritual', one of my two favorite pieces from 'the god who wasn't there', used with permission.  less

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"The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. I am one of those scientists   more...who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organized ignorance. We even have to go out on the attack ourselves, for the sake of reason and sanity. But it must be a positive attack, for science and reason have so much to give. They are not just useful, they enrich our lives in the same kind of way as the arts do. Promoting science as poetry was one of the things that Carl Sagan did so well, and I aspire to continue his tradition." - Richard Dawkins  less

Carl and some chickens

ATHF 04x13 Carl

c&g

la saga

Neil Tyson - Stupid Design

Stephen Hawking - God, the Universe, & Everything Else / Carl Sagan, Arthur C. Clarke (1988)
British journalist and TV host Magnus Magnusson tackles big questions about our universe in this educational   more...colloquium that brings together three of the 20th century's leading scientific thinkers: theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, astronomer Carl Sagan and author Arthur C. Clarke. They explore everything from the Big Bang Theory to the expansion of the universe, black holes, extraterrestrial life and the origins of creativity.
NOTE: Becasue this is copyrighted program, I can only post a few clips. But here are a few links on were you can rent or buy it.
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/70062143?trkid=73

http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Hawking-Universe-Everything-Arthur/dp/B000LP6KQW

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7360416

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NOVA: What makes the study of origins so hot right now?

Tyson: Well, one thing that distinguishes us today from the discoveries of the past is the extent to which the exploration of the universe has become   more...multidisciplinary. It was unthinkable not long ago that a biologist or paleontologist would be at the same conference as an astrophysicist. Now we have accumulated so much data in each of these branches of science as it relates to origins that we have learned that no one discipline can answer questions of origins alone. It requires the additional insights that one gets by merging not only the questions, but the answers, among scientific disciplines.

Now, for example, when you look for life on Mars, you need the astrophysicist to characterize the environment in which the planet is found. You need the chemist to understand the chemistry of the soils. You need the geologist to understand the rock formations. You need the biologist, because no one else will know what life will look like. You might even need a paleontologist to look for life that doesn't exist there today but might have left fossil remains.

NOVA: It's hard to imagine scientists in such diverse disciplines working well together. Do they?

Tyson: Initially it was like a shotgun wedding, where you'd say, "Well, I guess we have to talk to each other." And scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: you come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.  less

"Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic   more...zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds."
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994

"I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."
Stephen Hawking, interview with Daily Telegraph, 2001

"Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet's relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving."
Gene Roddenberry, Planetary Report Vol. 1, 1981

"The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."
Robert Heinlein, speech



Music by, PINK FLOYD
Momentary Lapse of Reason: "ON THE TURNING AWAY"  less

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"In my field of evolutionary biology, the most prominent urban legend—another 'truth' known by 'everyone'—holds that evolution may well be the way of the world, but one has to accept the idea with   more...a dose of faith because the process occurs far too slowly to yield any observable result in a human life-time. Thus, we can document evolution from the fossil record and infer the process from the taxonomic relationships of living species, but we cannot see evolution on human timescales 'in the wild.' In fairness, we professionals must shoulder some blame for this utterly false impression about evolution's invisibility in the here and now of everyday human life. Darwin himself—although he knew and emphasized many cases of substantial changes in human time (including the development of breeds in his beloved pigeons—tended to wax eloquent about the inexorable and stately slowness of natural evolution. In a famous passage from the Origin of Species, he even devised a striking metaphor about clocks to underscore the usual invisibility:

It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and invisibly working. . . . We see nothing of theses slow changes in progress until the hand of time has marked the long lapse of ages.

"Nonetheless, the claim that evolution must be too slow to see can only rank as an urban legend—although not a completely harmless tale in this case, for our creationists incubi can then use the fallacy as an argument against evolution at any scale, and many folks take them seriously because they just 'know' that evolution can never be seen in the immediate here and now. In fact, a precisely opposite situation prevails: biologists have documented a veritable glut of cases for rapid and eminently measurable evolution on timescales of years and decades." `Stephen Jay Gould

"The Paradox of the Visibly Irrelevant"  less

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"You're gonna love these drugs, kid. Trust me!" But this youngster pays a terrible price before he learns that Jesus is the only one he can really trust.

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It Reads: School children are taught that we don’t need God, because we are just animals who came from apes. But Susy tells her young friend that God made us, and sent his Son to give us eternal life.   more...A children’s tract.

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Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.
-Stephen Jay Gould  less

It reads:
Story of Sodom. Delivers a compassionate plea to repent of homosexuality.

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The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
~Lynn Lavner  less

April 2006,
"The world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief. Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion should be done and may in the end be our greatest   more...contribution to civilization."
-Steven Weinberg, Nobel laureate in physics.

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A young woman's brush with death reveals Satan's plot for her destruction.

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