A Stitch in Haste

As part of Blog Against Theocracy, I have assembled a collection of three clips from Carl Sagan's masterpiece of popular science, Cosmos. Each is directly related to the clash between dogma and science — the front line in the battle against theocracy.

First up, Sagan provides a narrative of one of history's greatest scientists — who unfortunately had suffered from terrible timing:


Some parting thoughts from Sagan:

When he found that his long-cherished beliefs did not agree with the most precise observations, he accepted the uncomfortable facts. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions. That is the heart of science.

If there can truly be such a thing as a "saint," then Johannes Kepler was one of the first, and one of the greatest.