From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 21:19:43 UTC
Carl Sagan Takes Questions
More From His ‘Wonder and Skepticism’ CSICOP 1994 Keynote
When Carl Sagan delivered his keynote address “Wonder and Skepticism” before
a large audience at the CSICOP Conference in Seattle, Washington, June
23–26, 1994, a lively question-andanswer session followed. We published
Sagan’s adaption of his talk as the cover article in the first bimonthly,
magazine-format issue of the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, January/February 1995. (We
republished it after Sagan’s December 1996 death as the lead chapter in the
last of four general SI anthologies I edited, Encounters with the
Paranormal: Science, Knowledge, and Belief, Prometheus 1998, with my
two-page epilogue.)
The Q/A session had been transcribed at the time along with the talk but put
away and never published. A few months ago it was relocated, and Carl’s wife
and collaborator, Ann Druyan, readily agreed that it should be published in
the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER. It appears here, with omission of only a few
nonsubstantive exchanges.
If some of the specifics discussed seem dated, others are as topical as
today’s news. And the general themes remain current. We then publish on page
37 a passionately felt postscript, “The Great Turning Away,” written
specially for this issue by Ann Druyan. —KENDRICK FRAZIER, Editor
http://www.csicop.org/si/2005-07/sagan.html
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