![]() ![]() Back into the realm of observable facts and testable hypotheses, it was indeed like a candle in the dark. ![]() Reading this just after Gabriele Amorth’s An Exorcist Explains Demons, noteworthy for its credulousness, The Demon-Haunted World was like whiplash into reality. It was also Sagan’s final book published in his lifetime. Although that is indeed the case, the book is a collection of essays vindicating in various ways the practice and teaching of science. I wasn’t really sure what to expect-I’ve been researching demons and I supposed they would be addressed in his book, since they feature in the title. The last time I was in Ithaca, therefore, I picked up a copy of his tour de force, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Dedicated to the scientific method, he nonetheless admits that there are some things scientists don’t know. ![]() Among scientists who write Carl Sagan has always struck me as one of the more open minded. ![]()
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