Birds were created to record everything. They were not designed just to be beautiful jewels in the sky, but to serve as the eyes of heaven.
[When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996:] If βfulfilled prophecyβ is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses.