In the quoted passage, Sagan was trying to explain why, through history, it made sense that humans concluded there was a Great Designer before there was an extensive knowledge of the fossil record. He was saying that humans were not stupid. They were intelligent and reasoning, but they just didn't have all the pieces to the puzzle. The idea of one designer who made his creation perfect the first time and without utilizing evolution was reasonable and common, but it was also wrong.
DBT9,
You are making the same mistake again.
It "before there was an extensive knowledge of the fossil record. " is not a quote from Carl Sagan but from an anonymous poster.
An anonymous poster like yourself who has got it wrong.
Carl Sagan wrote " The fossil evidence could be consistent with the idea of a Great Designer"
DBT9,
When you quoted Sagan's "Cosmos" pg 29
you made another mistake and included an additional line that is not from Carl Sagan but just an erroneous anonymous opinion.
So in truth, Sagan is saying that the idea of an efficient designer is incompatible with what science has found.''
