Original sentence: " Intelligent design proponents often cite this quote and the ending of Contact as proof that Sagan believed that, using the tools of science, it was possible to discover if there was a creator of the universe.Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow, has said that he "never wanted to believe.He wanted to know.However, this position is in direct conflict with the vast body of Sagan's views as represented in his work and writings (such as The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark) which are skeptical about claims of supernatural origins of the cosmos and favor explanations of a naturalistic origin.In the novel Sagan presented a fictionalized account that illustrates a search for and discovery of objectively verifiable evidence of the kind that a skeptical scientist would want to find as support for the hypothesis that the universe had been created by "an intelligence that antedates the universe.The discovery of the message in Pi is objective, yet one could have found it without the alien’s advice, which leaves the question of the actual first contact, again of faith.The novel has been adopted by some of the proponents of the intelligent design movement , though Sagan was a well-known atheist committed to scientific and intellectual rigor and never felt that objectively verifiable evidence had (or could) actually been found to support the "notion of a God who has created everything.Yet at the very heart of this grand discovery lies the inherent untestable element of "faith", as the returnees have no credible objective evidence of their own experience, much like the proof of God by testaments of the biblical times which are not accepted by modern science as evidence
Edited sentence: Intelligent design proponents often cite the ending of Contact as proof that Sagan believed that, using the tools of science, it was possible to discover if there was a creator of the universe.This interpretation is in direct conflict with the vast body of Sagan's views as represented in his work and writings, such as The Demon-Haunted World as well as Science as a Candle in the Dark, which are skeptical about claims of supernatural origins of the cosmos and favor explanations of a naturalistic origin