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To: DaveTesla
Bull. Here's a whole lot more about Einstein's views on religion.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/einstein/einprayr.htm

Some choice quotes

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance-but for us, not for God.

Go quote-mine somewhere else, and leave a great man alone.

32 posted on 08/18/2005 9:19:50 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

"God does not play dice" imports a belief in an objective intelligibility in the continuous dynamic structures and transformations in the space-time reality of the universe which we may apprehend, but only at relatively elementary levels through open structures, even though they are mathematically precise in their formalisation. As I understand him, even Heisenberg toward the end of his life concluded that in quantum theory the scientist is in touch with nature which in its depth is so subtle and elusive that it cannot be explained in terms of the couplet "chance and necessity". That "God does not play dice" highlights the fact that chance is after all a negative way of thinking, or rather a way not to think. This is a lesson I believe that many scientists today, especially perhaps in biology, need to learn-their appeal to "chance" too often appears to be a sort of "scientist's God of the gaps"!


33 posted on 08/18/2005 9:53:49 PM PDT by DaveTesla (You can fool some of the people some of the time......)
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To: Right Wing Professor
Go quote-mine somewhere else, and leave a great man alone.

I agree that Einstein was an atheist and a great scientist. I disagree that Einstein was anything near a great man. Any man who would prefer death to bearing arms and in the same breath defame the soldiers with the balls to do same is far from great. Especially a man who lived during the holocaust.

43 posted on 08/19/2005 6:12:56 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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