‘Pantheism is just sexed-up atheism’
The greatest scientists who have ever lived have not been absolute atheists
Carl Sagan, astronomer and science communicator who hosted the award- winning television series Cosmos in 1980, was an arch sceptic and rationalist. Yet, he’s also gone on record with something very interesting: “A religion old or new,” he said, “that stresses the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.”
Actually even greater modern scientists than Sagan have said things somewhat similar. Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time was once asked by Larry King on his show if he believed in God. He answered, “Yes, I do, if by God you mean the embodiment of the laws that govern the universe.” And, of course, arguably the greatest of them all, Albert Einstein, not only famously averred that God didn’t play dice with the universe, but wrote, “My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality.”
Om Namah Shivay
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