Wow! Thanks for that link.

I was in Seattle at the time and I regret I didn't attend - unfortunately my interest in science seems to ebb and flow on a 10 year cycle.

I was especially taken by Ann's Druyan's comment from "The Great Turning Away":

"Consider all the futures depicted in science fiction that you have ever seen or read; whether of life on this world or any other. How many of them imagine a future in which the dominant religious traditions and beliefs of the present survive? Remember: This is the output of countless independent imaginations of every conceivable point of view. Yet, when we imagine the future, the gods of our childhood are long gone."