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To: DaveTesla
On Einstein and God

From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.... I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our being.

26 posted on 08/18/2005 8:41:02 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor (Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory - John Marburger, science advisor to George W. Bush)
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To: Right Wing Professor
But the two Einstein letters have remained largely unknown.

Kind of like the CBS memos eh?

So all you have is the word of Guy Raner a well known atheist.
30 posted on 08/18/2005 8:53:59 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: Right Wing Professor

Edwin Hubble


31 posted on 08/18/2005 8:59:16 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: Right Wing Professor

Einstein did not believe in a personal God or an afterlife.

But he was not an a-theist. Not by a long shot.

He had a great appreciation and awe for what/who he called "the Old One"...the cosmic intelligence that laid out the universe whose secrets he could only dimly appreciate through scientific theory. Selected quotations do not adequately address Einstein's beliefs.


38 posted on 08/19/2005 5:33:31 AM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
Sorry, re-entered the thread late after harrowing time at work...

(From one of your posts, quoting from "On Einstein and God")...

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one

It's odd how well this comports with Jesus' statement quoted in Matthew 18--

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?" Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the midst of them, and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven."

So Einstein discovered some nineteen centuries later exactly what Jesus had been saying all along; and somehow this is supposed to contradict Christianity?

Full Disclosure: Look at the last sentence of your Einstein quote, about "an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our being."

If Einstein himself felt himself compelled to humility, and you are quoting him, shouldn't you try engaging in a little more humility yourself? (At least towards other Freepers?) :-)

75 posted on 08/20/2005 12:29:52 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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