Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Stedman, Chris and Sagan, Nick (Mar 16, 2014), Nick Sagan on ‘Cosmos,’ Carl, and his “strange childhood”, Retrieved on 2014-04-21
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    21 APR 2014

     "Cosmos" Converts

    I’ve met secular humanists who grew up in evangelical households, for whom Cosmos was their first exposure to a scientific way of viewing the world. Dad was a difference maker. He reached out to people. He took them by the awe and wonder we feel over the most important questions we can think to imagine. He pulled them away from blind faith, away from pseudoscience, toward a deeper, richer understanding of the universe. And he did it with compassion. He didn’t berate people or make them feel ...
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    Nick Sagan explains how his father's compassion and energy converted people to humanism.

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