Ann’s article in the Skeptical Inquirer has a header paragraph that’s a beautiful message:
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life’s preciousness on our tiny planet. (Ann Druyan)
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/ann_druyan_talks_about_science_religion/
It’s puzzling that Eden is synonymous with paradise when, if you think about it at all, it’s more like a maximum-security prison with twenty-four hour surveillance. It’s a horrible place.