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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I haven't watched the new series enough to notice anything like that.
The thing that made Carl Sagan so good is that you never got the feeling that he was trying to proselytize his message in that series. It makes me glad that I watched the original series in an era before social media and when I was innocent enough to not even know that there was a debate.
The whole fact that things have to be portrayed as "us versus them" these days is sad and I think it's just going to chase people away from wanting to participate in either.
While Sagan was highly critical of zealots and organized religion, he also thought that spirituality and science were totally compatible and science could be a source for spirituality. I much prefer to see that angle delivered. It just seems more positive and more effective if you really want to get religious people interested in science. Attacking just pushes them further away.
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I'm just speculating based off of the appearance I saw on Colbert where he just seemed exhausted at the need of having to explain things that have been known since Sagan's time. As I said, Tyson said that the thing he thinks Sagan would find most surprising is the state of science and how much of a battle still wages to try and have people believe it. Maybe Sagan was more optimistic on how Cosmos would be received and Tyson is more cynical about to get the point across. It's pure speculation on my part.