Posted by rpcman on October 21, 1999 at 14:13:06:
In Reply to: Sagan the historian posted by Tom on October 20, 1999 at 16:54:34:
: The historical treatments I'm referring to are found in
: Sagan's book and TV series Cosmos.
Having read and seen those, I can assure you that you are likely wrong. The only one of Sagan's works I have handy is Billions and Billions and in that book he considers Aristotle a scientist--not anti-scientific (although from other readings I've done on Aristotle I can see how someone could honestly call him anti-science from a modern perspective of scientific *methodology*).
: ...this is pure conjecture.
Is there as much conjecture as contained in your posts in this thread? If you want to be believed you will need to show us these full quotes, in context, and then show (not tell) us the real facts.
: This may have occurred to Sagan in one of his dreams, but it has no factual basis.
Sagan's dreams or your dreams? Had you bothered to read (and comprehend!) this thread you'd see that it wasn't Sagan's dreams we discussed. It was an article by William Calvin about how some dreams may possibly be used as inspiration for new thoughts--not for making up facts as your posts appear to do.