![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, he put it a little more strongly than that.Ī smart story crafted by a real space science guru I called up a mathematician friend to ask what he thought of this argument, but I'm not sure he was totally convinced. This just in: "Jonmaas" on Medium says there is a message of the kind Sagan hypothesizes in Contact. I just noticed that God's mysterious utterance "I AM WHO I AM" occurs in Exodus 3:14.Ĭould this possibly have given Sagan an idea? "Ellie disgracefully waffles in the face of lightweight theological objections to rationalism." I had not come across his letter until I saw it just now, but apparently Sagan told Warner Brothers straight out that he was unhappy with what they'd done to the movie. ![]() ![]() This is the opposite of what Sagan was saying.įor people who haven't seen the famous xkcd cartoon (I hadn't until this morning): So she is forced to tell people that they need Faith. In the movie, she comes back and can't justify her story in any way. She also makes another surprising discovery. When she returns to Earth, she has no immediate way to support her story - but she has been given enough of a clue that she knows how to find objective evidence, which she duly does. In the book, the heroine meets the aliens and is told that they have indisputable proof that the Universe was created by a Higher Power. I was quite shocked when I saw the movie version, and discovered that they had twisted the message 180 degrees. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |