He also brands as superstition ghosts, angels, fairies, demons, astrology, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and religious apparitions. Knight, who claims to be in touch with a 35,000-year-old entity called Ramtha. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan: Used at the best. In a passionate plea for scientific literacy, Sagan deftly debunks the myth of Atlantis, Filipino psychic surgeons and mediums such as J.Z. He labels as hoaxes the crop circles, complex pictograms that appear in southern England's wheat and barley fields, and he dismisses as a natural formation the Sphinx-like humanoid face incised on a mesa on Mars, first photographed by a Viking orbiter spacecraft in 1976 and considered by some scientists to be the engineered artifact of an alien civilization. The following excerpt is from Carl Sagan’s book, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark,8 itself both a plea for and an excellent example of clear scientific communication: The Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) would have been the preeminent instrument on the planet for probing the fine structure of matter and the nature. To him, purported UFO encounters and alien abductions are products of gullibility, hallucination, misidentification, hoax and therapists' pressure some alleged encounters, he suggests, may screen memories of sexual abuse. Eminent Cornell astronomer and bestselling author Sagan debunks the paranormal and the unexplained in a study that will reassure hardcore skeptics but may leave others unsatisfied.
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