Carl Sagan's last interview, part 3 of 3

Carl Sagan gave his last interview with Charlie rose on May 27th 1996. He discussed pseudo-science, religion, unfounded claims, his personal love affair with science and his struggle with myelodysplasia as well as other elements of his last book: The Demon-Haunted World.

I thought it was important that a high quality copy of this interview, with proper audio video sync, was made available on youtube.

The Demon-Haunted World changed my life in ways more profound than I thought possible. That book, and the name of Carl Sagan, should be known to every high school graduate.

"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy."

Part 1 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jod7v-m573k
Part 2 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDKSZO-aACk
Part 3 of 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxeN6Wf7mbU

CORRECTION: It's come to my attention that Carl gave one other television interview before his death. It was aired on ABC's Nightline on December 4th 1996. A short clip from that interview can be seen below. Please ask ABC to make the entire interview available.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_JX_-jaJOrU#t=79s

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[MassLiberal1]

Come on people. Charlie Rose was just joking around when he said, "Faith Carl, faith". Who really believes he was trying to convert Sagan to magical thinking?

[bishop8000]

@MassLiberal1 No one believes that, but he also wasn't hear Carl Sagan's epic deconstruction of the same tired old faith argument.

[cnn94001]

Carl Sagan was dead right about science, nobody seems to care or try to understand it. Here's a demonstration: How many people know of Justin Bebier? And many people know of Carl Sagan?

[CellE2057]

@MassLiberal1 I believe the "fatih Carl, faith." statement wasn't a refusal to hear the deconstruction of the same old same old but rather an unintentional rebuttal. The argument would go something along the lines of "Faith is something that goes beyond science as a result of its simplicity." Again, I don't think this was his, word for word, thoughts but I think that was his jest. Note that this is coming from an Atheist lol.

[dreamvoidTV]

Carl Sagan = Pure Awesomeness!

[ofnumbers]

Charlie Rose is a wiener, I've decided. After watching this whole interview, he's just amazingly good at pretending he has a clue what's being said.

[LiftYourSkinnyFist]

"A long dreamless sleep." Elegant way of putting it.

[elchicho25]

That book is one of the best Ive read thus far.. Amazing man with a Passion for the TRUTH.

[jmontis2]

we must honor Carl by using the unit of measurement, a "sagan". It means equal to at least 4 billion.

[RedValkyries]

@totzstangolo love man love!

[totzstangolo]

did carl just compare those fundamentalist assholes in the united states to european people who know very well the difference between faith and scientifically prooven facts?

[abortion4life666]

The problem with the last quote is that we all die and there will be a time when no man will be there to have memory of anything.