Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition

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1) 10 Years After: Carl Sagan & Ann Druyan Reflect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leTNfw...
2) Lost Between Immensity And Eternity:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIVsDg...
3) The Realm Of The Galaxies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axoV6...
4) Our Galaxy, The Milky Way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOazBT...
5) Our Solar System:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBqjob...
6) Eratosthenes And The Round Earth Model:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en5UKt...
7) The Library Of Alexandria:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVQs4B...
8) A Short History Of The Universe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n2r0q...
9) Artificial And Natural Selection:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3uToV...
10) The Cosmic Year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFqbm_...
11) Tree Of Life - 4 Billion Years Of Evolution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF0UEC...
12) The Miracle Of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOyojW...
13) DNA - The Common Basis Of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecmuvj...
14) Abiogenesis - The Origin Of Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yet1xk...
15) Astronomy vs Astrology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImaQS9...
16) Pictures In The Sky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwCAwc...
17) Ancient Astronomy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-5dwJ...
18) Triumph Of Modern Science Over Medieval Superstition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lfmRq...
19) The Mysterious Tunguska Event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irVof7...
20) Life Beyond Earth - Origin Of Life In The Universe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ivTd...

Carl Edward Sagan, Ph.D. (1934-1996) was an American astronomer, astrochemist, author, and highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics and other natural sciences. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

He is world-famous for writing popular science books and for co-writing and presenting the award-winning 1980 television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage", which has been seen by more than 600 million people in over 60 countries, making it the most widely watched PBS program in history.

A book to accompany the program was also published. He also wrote the novel "Contact", the basis for the 1997 Robert Zemecki's film of the same name starring Jodie Foster.

During his lifetime, Sagan published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he frequently advocated skeptical inquiry, secular humanism, and the scientific method.

• http://www.carlsagan.com

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers based on his works "Astronomia nova", "Harmonices Mundi", and "Epitome of Copernican Astrononomy". They also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.

During his career, Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, Austria, an assistant to astronomer Tycho Brahe, the court mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II, a mathematics teacher in Linz, Austria, and an adviser to General Wallenstein. He also did fundamental work in the field of optics, invented an improved version of the refracting telescope (the Keplerian Telescope), and helped to legitimize the telescopic discoveries of his contemporary Galileo Galilei.

Kepler lived in an era when there was no clear distinction between astronomy and astrology, but there was a strong division between astronomy (a branch of mathematics within the liberal arts) and physics (a branch of natural philosophy).

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes...
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[loung tran]

Fuck off religion is bullshit period

[Urfullobull]

"morans"

ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!....Oh the irony....it burns.

[Gooners Rule]

Doesn't hold water like the truth one finds in the Bible with all those talking snakes does it? LOL

[Gooners Rule]

Squeal like a pig! Are you fucking your sister? LOL

[Gooners Rule]

Which part of Ireland do those "morans" come from asswipe?

[Gooners Rule]

I have no evidence that God doesn't exist but if he does ,he seems to have demonstrated what an inefficient capricious evil asshole he is. But since I don't believe he or Santa exists ,its all pretty academic. LOL

[Renee Beveridge]

religions are just systems structured around the idea of a god. if u can't prove gods real, then all the stuff that comes with religion is no more than laws, opinions and ideas made my mankind to give meaning to ppls lives and give them some sort of answer to the unknown. when you think about it, people thousands of years ago, even hundreds of years, had no idea how the world works/worked. they needed some sort of explanation, and what better than human like god that obsessively stalks us.

[hhautala]

yeah it's sad. I'am convinced that religions are totally bs. Don't know about god but i don't really care about that until these is something other to support that idea than appeals to emotions.

[Renee Beveridge]

the idea that earth is the centre of the universe, just highlights that ignorant and utter vanity of religious teachings. a theist tried to argue with me that atheism isn't humble and theism is; yet he believes in a god that expects us to worship him and threatens people with eternal hell if they refuse. he believes that things were "designed" for us. he believes god watches us and cares about EVERYTHING we do, say and think. cuz we're SO important. so...how is theism humble, and not atheism?

[TomeOfBattle]

CONTINUED: And I in turn would say that you have no proof that He does NOT work, at least partially, by rules that we CAN understand.

[TomeOfBattle]

"Bullshit" as in "we have no proof." I can choose to believe in a Creator, but I can also believe that it was through physics and math, biology, natural selection and so on, with a bit of tinkering and omniscience, that the world, universe, multiverse and indeed everything came into existence. There IS a God, but he often plays by rules that we can come to understand. One does NOT preclude the other. You could say I have no proof that he works by rules that we can understand.

[emailjwr]

it's a meme dude ... type it into google