None of your arguments make any sense *at all* and I assure you that Sagan’s skepticism hasn’t abandoned him, and your ‘skepticism’, far from outshining Sagan, is actually non-existent when you are so unbelievably mis-informed about the fundamental basics of what he’s talking about.

Find a high school biology textbook and learn what evolution, natural selection, and artificial selection *actually* are. When you have sufficiently educated yourself, go back to the documentary and you will see that Carl Sagan’s explanation is perfectly accurate and you have not just discovered a major flaw with the documentary that Carl himself missed, along with everyone else since the early 1980′s when it was released.

Thanks man…this is awesome :)

I was such a dumbass trying to watch 14 episodes at the same time. It makes way more sense now.

lol no thanks

The only part I did -not- enjoy was Ann tilting her head a lot during the introduction.

For one thing, the last thing in the world the power establishment wants is a conscious and informed public who is capable of critical thinking. This is why there is a constant flow of bs being thrown at us via the education, religious, media, government, and other institutions. Just evoking the word evolution sends all kinds of tremors into the religious community because by its very nature, evolution contradicts every thing they ever taught you in church.

But none of that answers the question why. However there is a quote. I believe it was Napolean who said it. Its very popular in power circles, but rarely ever quoted by the middle class…

‘Religion is the thing that keeps the poor from murdering the rich”

I attended an American public school once for about 3 months. The subject of history was purposely and intentionally made boring and tedious. They took the study of history and made it a matter of memorizing dates.

You know as well as I that history is anything but boring and has nothing to do with memorizing dates. Now put a man like Mr Sagan as the teacher, and it becomes very obvious what the fascination is.

And look at what his students are saying about him. How many other teachers do you know whose students rave about them the way Sagan’s do about him? I really do not like using the word “miracle” especially of all places on a page that has one of his vids posted. But that’s the word that comes to mind.

There are comments here that mention his style and point out how he had the ability to make complex issues seem easy, and at the same time he always appeared to be a friend. Someone you would be happy to have over to to your house for dinner. Without ever coming into contact with him, people instinctively know he is also a great friend.

This is above and beyond his accomplishments as a scientist, which were also very notable. And I am sad to say this makes his passing even more tragic. because the world lost a really great humanitarian person who came with a lot of dignity and intelligence. Something that seems to be missing in our current condition .