Posted on 04/14/2014 3:39:00 PM PDT by neverdem
In “Einstein, God, and the Big Bang,” a colorful chapter of his new book, Amir D. Aczel maintains that Albert Einstein truly believed in God. He points out that Einstein attended synagogue during his year in Prague (1913). He repeats several famous Einstein utterances mentioning the Deity: “Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not” and “I want to know God’s thoughts — the rest are details.” And he quotes from a letter the great physicist wrote to a little girl in January 1936: “Everyone who is seriously interested in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.”
Aczel goes on to express strong displeasure with such people as physicist Lawrence Krauss and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (who, in his bestseller “The God Delusion,” says that Einstein “didn’t really mean it”) when they cast Einstein as an atheist in support of their diatribes against religious belief...
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Exactly.
My 13th birthday. SIGH...So many moons ago.
LOL! I was born Nov. 1st and I just turned 18 when he was elected. I remember it was like winning the lottery, me and my friends held a “Good riddance Carter” party and we drew a big poster of Reagan kicking Carters ass out the front door ha ha. Time flys don’t it, I can’t believe it’ll be 34 years. For some reason I remember so much about that year, probably because I just graduated High School which was like being paroled ha ha
Wow! I got to see Reagan in 1984 in Media Pa. Time does fly! Sadly, November 4th 1979 was the day our Embassy staff in Iran were taken hostage, my 12th birthday :(
Aczel is wrong. He didn't. Einstein was a monistic humanist. He said he believed in "the god of Spinoza" which basically makes him an atheist. Einstein used the term "superpersonal" to describe his god, and this peculiar term was coined by Paul Carus, editor of The Monist journal. Monism, popularized by Ernst Haeckel, was supposed to be a religion for scientists. Monism is a kind of Spinoza-lite pantheism. Many scientists in those times, especially evolutionists, adopted monism and promoted monism.
ya, I pretty much agree with you on this.
But I have a number of Amir D. Aczel’s books and really enjoy them.
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