New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible
I have always held Carl Sagan in high esteem without actually having read his books.<p>I was taken aback to watch some Cosmos with my kids last week though, the Neil deGrasse Tyson edition. It came across as overt quasi-religious indoctrination to me. Makes me wonder if science has become a religion in the US.<p>Tear down the Catholic church, build up the universe as a new drop-in replacement God with infallible science as his doctrine, anoint and celebrate faith-driven martyrs to the cause from history. Yikes. Sounds straight out of The Book of Mormon to me.<p>(Admittedly it was less extreme than the Bill Nye special on Netflix that I tried to watch with them the year before.)