What would Carl Sagan say? (If he were still alive today?)

Another segment that will be recurring in the blog, is What would Carl Sagan say? (or wwcss.) And, I think of it as the response to "WWJD?". What would Carl say if he were still alive today? Well, I'd like to think that if he were told that someone was trying to cut the funding for Planned Parenthood, an organization that saves lives and protects the youth of America from making LIFE ALTERING mistakes, mistakes that they would never be able to correct if they let the baby come to full term.

I realize that some people may have the opinion that within the human body or wherever, somehow exists an "Eternal Soul" which is supposedly endowed upon us from the moment of conception. I have significant reservations about accepting such an argument without evidence.

Where is the proof of the existence of this so-called "Eternal Soul?"

Show me one example of a "Soul" in nature, or some example of a scientific or mathematical model supporting the theory of the possibility of "Eternal Life."

Also, if this "Soul" is eternal, then it has to exist somewhere outside of SpaceTime, because while we know that the universe is infinitely finite, (i know that's an oxymoron, but it's true) it's infinite in size, yet bounded in on itself. You will never reach an outer wall of the universe, and yet, if you were to travel straight in one direction endlessly, you would eventually end up back where you started. Assuming, you could theoretically travel faster than the speed of light, and somehow survive the trip.

It would be necessary to travel faster than the speed of light, because the universe is actually expanding at the speed of light, and therefore, unless you travel faster than c, you would never be able to catch the universe as it outruns you from expansion.

So, these things tell me that in order for a "soul" to be eternal, it would have to exist outside of Spacetime, and therefore would have no discernible effect on this universe.
The same is said to go for "God", how could "God" be said to exist, if in order for him to exist, he would have to exist outside of SpaceTime, and therefore would not be able to have any effect on this universe either.

And lastly, my final point is actually not about religion at all, it's simply about rights. You have rights as a citizen of this country, (assuming your a citizen of the US), and those rights should be utterly under your control, no one else's. And we should not be attempting to legislate what a consenting adult is able to do with their own bodies.

There are several examples of where the religious right wing is butting in and trying to legislate away behavior that it deems "sin."
Namely: Drugs, and Drug Prohibition, Prostitution, Abortion, Birth Control, and Gay Marriage. Which, I have to say is another asinine point of political debate. It shouldn't be anyone's business who's sexual preference is what. And also, what is the Government doing trying to legislate a religious ritual? If you want to get married in a church, you shouldn't have to worry about the governmental side of things, (with the exception of obtaining the appropriate licenses), you should only have to worry about what the church asks of you.

And if you don't want to get married in a church, just get a Civil Union, which you can still officially call a "Marriage" but for the sake of religious argument, you can call it a Civil Union, and protect the difference between a religious "Marriage" and a governmentally and legally binding Civil Union.

Lastly, this keeps the government out of the Religion business, and protects our first amendment right to the separation between church and state.

Thank you,
Frank Colletti

That's pretty much it for now