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To: RetiredNow who wrote (219062)	2/13/2005 12:15:14 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1574854

"I always thought Sagan was an atheist until that movie." In his writings he showed consistently that he was in awe of the magnitude and sweep of the universe. And that we have only the barest glimmer of understanding it. IIRC, he was raised Jewish. But he pretty clearly rejected the concept of a personal god. But you can also see glimmers of a belief in something greater than the individual in his writings. I suspect he was one of those who felt that the purpose of the universe is to create God... Regardless. Uncle Carl was a great popularizer of science, if not the greatest. Yeah, he was all wet on occasions(Kuwait), and had an ego that was boundless, but he had a knack for packaging some very abstract concepts and making them accessable to regular people. We are poorer with his passing.