More than a few mem­bers of his audi­ence might well have asked them­selves where does God fit into all this. The ques­tion­er, a grad­u­ate stu­dent, asks, “Is there any type of God to you? In response to this dif­fi­cult line of inquiry, Sagan opens a more dif­fi­cult one: “What do you mean when you use the word God?” Sagan comes back with yet anoth­er ques­tion: “If we do blow our­selves up, does that dis­prove the exis­tence of God?” The ques­tion even­tu­al­ly gets Sagan con­sid­er­ing how “the word ‘God’ cov­ers an enor­mous range of dif­fer­ent ideas.”