![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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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