I watched contact again last night, a movie from a book written by carl Sagan. The subject of god comes up and the religious nuts want to ensure that the first person to greet an alien believes in god. Elle, the astrophysicist played by jody foster responds with god isnt relevant in this situation. She adds does it make people feel better to think that there is some higher power they can look up to.
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I enjoyed the movie, but I was somewhat disappointed in the way Jodie Foster was depicted as a not too bright atheist. She simply insisted that she didn't and wouldn't believe in God unless and until it was proven to her. Both atheists and (intelligent) believers know that the existence of God can't be proven one way or the other. If it could, this forum wouldn't exist.
Heraclitus
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May 14, 2018
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I think of Sagan as agnostic. I think the very end of the book Contact is a blatant indication of that.
Both the movie and the book are fantastic.
GarytheGondolier
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May 14, 2018
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That's just what we need first contact with intelligent life and we send some backwards hillbilly with a 3rd grade education because jesus. If intelligent life is out there it's probably staying as far away as it can from this primative destructive race we belong to I would if i could
LeeMurray
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