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Walker's essay is posted on his website: https://webspace.utexas.edu/jw2893/
www/index.htm. See also Dilip Gaonkar, “The Idea of Rhetoric in the Rheto-
ric of Science,”
Southern Communication Journal
58 (1993): 258-95.
4
Aristotle,
On Rhetoric
, trans. George A. Kennedy
(New York: Oxford Univer-
sity Press, 1991), 39 [1356a]. The nonrational aspect of this authority suggests
some coincidence between Aristotle's notion of ethos and what Max Weber
has called “charismatic authority” in
The Theory of Social and Economic Orga-
nization,
trans. A. M. Henderson and Talcott Parsons (New York: Free Press,
1947), 106, 358-73.
5
Berger,
Sacred Canopy
, 24-25.
6
The Outer Limits
, season 1, episode 5, “The Sixth Finger.”
7
Arthur C. Clarke,
2001: A Space Odyssey
(New York: New American Library,
1968), 168-69. In Clarke's sequel,
2010
, a different explanation is introduced,
a schizophrenia resulting from mixed messages in HAL's programming.
8
Jacob Bronowski,
The Ascent of Man
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1973); Carl Sagan,
Cosmos
(New York: Random House, 1980). Both programs closely follow the
accompanying topics.
9
Bronowski,
Ascent
, 374.
10
Jacob Bronowski,
Magic, Science, and Civilization
(New York: Columbia Univer-
sity Press, 1978), 1-2.
11
William Poundstone,
Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos
(New York: Henry Holt,
1999), 256-61; John Marsh, “The Universe and Dr. Sagan,”
Commentary
71
(1981): 64.
12
Sagan,
Cosmos
, xii.
13
Martin Buber,
I and Thou
, trans. Ronald Gregor Smith (Edinburgh, U.K.:
T&T Clark, 1947).
14
Stephen Toulmin,
The Return to Cosmology: Postmodern Science and the Theology
of Nature
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 21-85, 165-75, 211.
15
Sagan,
Cosmos
, 338.
16
Sagan,
Cosmos
, 3.
17
Sagan, Cosmos, 12
18
Sagan,
Cosmos
, 12.
19
Ruse,
Monad to Man,
1-83.
20
Michael Ruse,
The Evolution-Creation Struggle
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 2005), 265.
21
Ruse,
Monad to Man
, 526 -39.
22
Ruse,
Monad to Man
, 427-28, 467-70, 511-14.
23
Karl Giberson and Mariano Artigas,
Oracles of Science: Celebrity Scientists versus
God and Religion
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 19.
