Seems like a good thread for the weekend.
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2 posted on
09/10/2005 4:57:04 AM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(Discoveries attributable to the scientific method -- 100%; to creation science -- zero.)
To: PatrickHenry
3 posted on
09/10/2005 5:19:16 AM PDT by
bkepley
To: PatrickHenry
Well. Now that he's left this mortal coil, he probably has a fair idea of what the truth is.
4 posted on
09/10/2005 5:30:57 AM PDT by
siunevada
To: PatrickHenry
"In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests"
Albert Einstein, "Science and Religion", Out of my Later Years, 1950
5 posted on
09/10/2005 5:32:23 AM PDT by
djf
(Government wants the same things I do - MY guns, MY property, MY freedoms!)
To: PatrickHenry
I am not worried what Einstein thought about God. The man was not even good with personal relationships, so his views on supernatural ones are somewhat suspect.
6 posted on
09/10/2005 6:40:17 AM PDT by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: PatrickHenry
Probably a good idea. You'd think Einstein was some kind of snake-handler the way his quotes get bandied about by the miracle-peddlers.
7 posted on
09/10/2005 7:08:11 AM PDT by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: PatrickHenry
Another one, from his late years "I want to learn to think like God thinks"
8 posted on
09/10/2005 7:14:19 AM PDT by
Vision
(When Hillary Says She's Going To Put The Military On Our Borders...She Becomes Our Next President)
To: PatrickHenry
My favorite: "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein
Others:
http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html
To: PatrickHenry
Einstein was a theologian too?
15 posted on
09/10/2005 8:25:57 AM PDT by
Raycpa
To: PatrickHenry
"Stop telling God what to do!" When Niels Bohr said these words to Albert Einstein.But Albert was smarter than God. /sarcasm
Brilliant physicist, amateurish theologian.
16 posted on
09/10/2005 8:29:37 AM PDT by
JCEccles
To: PatrickHenry
All these quotes are taken from his writings during the "middle-age-crisis" time of his life; do any more exist from his mid-fifties to his death at 76?
36 posted on
09/10/2005 10:23:29 AM PDT by
Old Professer
(Some infinitives deserve to be split.)
To: PatrickHenry
To: PatrickHenry
This has about as much value as what Kwame West thinks about Bush.
To: PatrickHenry
Right now I'm reading Twain's Letters from the Earth. I'm pretty sure that would warrant me execution on the Religious Forum. Hell, it's still early, I may just post my thoughts there.
77 posted on
09/10/2005 1:04:14 PM PDT by
ShadowDancer
(Stupid people make my brain sad.)
To: PatrickHenry
Einstein wasn't a religious Jew. His concern was more with Jewishness than with Judaism. He wasn't actually an especially nice person either. That was his prerogative: he was brilliant, and that was his contribution.
But the teddy bear or sweetheart image that Americans formed of him in his last years wasn't the real man. Some people may have been misled by the image of the gentle shaggy genius in a sweatshirt into thinking that rejection of social norms makes one more humane. That doesn't always happen. It may simply make one more egoistic. Of course Einstein wasn't a Nazi, but that's a pretty basic requirement for humaneness.
For some scientists, though, "doing physics" can be a "religious experience." It can be their way of encountering the transcendent or divine. One can certainly quarrel with such a view and want all the canonical names and texts to have their place in one's world view, but it's not for nothing that a word like "consmology" has both physical/astronomic and metaphysical/religious connotations.
88 posted on
09/10/2005 2:20:30 PM PDT by
x
To: PatrickHenry
*[Quantum] theory yields much, but it hardly brings us close to the Old One's secrets. You fools! He was referring to The Great Old Ones!
89 posted on
09/10/2005 2:31:17 PM PDT by
Junior
(Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
To: PatrickHenry
122 posted on
09/11/2005 7:31:54 AM PDT by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
131 posted on
01/24/2010 8:18:33 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year! Freedom is Priceless.)
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