I went to bed anxious and fearful, unsure about everything I’d always “known.” Sagan’s words had found footholds in my mind where Dawkins’s, Hitchens’s, and Harris’s had not. Sagan didn’t bother with a direct assault on the absurdity of God. Rather, he shifted the frame and revealed the notion of a God who cares for our Earth as being silly in a cosmos whose scale dwarfs our imagination.
