(September 29, 2011 at 12:53 pm)Zaki Aminu Wrote: Carl Sagan never provided any conclusive evidence as to why he believed there is no Afterlife though, did he? So he was merely expressing a blind faith position here. Very unscientific! Deplorable!
He doesn't need to.
He didn't claim to know with absolute certainty, that there is no afterlife. He disbelieved there is an afterlife.
There is no faith required in disbelieving something for which there is no supporting evidence.
He was being extremely scientific.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.