God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. Albert Einstein
God always takes the simplest way. Albert Einstein
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. Albert Einstein
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. Albert Einstein
Let's look at a profound statement from another intellectual genius who recognized "a superior reasoning power" as the Source of life and liberty:
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson
A concept of "Creator-endowed," therefore unalienable, life, rights, and liberty lies at the heart of the American experiment in self-government.
Ideas have consequences! Are life, rights, and liberty gifts from the Creator, or are they mere chance "grants" from some other individual or collection of individuals in positions of power at any given time and place? The answer to this question has determined either liberty or tyranny for individuals.
If we are to train our future citizens that "science" cannot include an acknowledgement of a "superior reasoning power," then we'd better examine the long-term consequences of that idea on the future of liberty in the world.
Lincoln declared:
". . . it is no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation. . . .The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. . . . And yet, they are denied, and evaded, with no small show of success. . . .All honor to Jefferson--to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a . . . revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers [initiators of threatening change] of reappearing tyranny and oppression."
Ideas do have consequences!
Enough of scientific snobbery! One is inclined to suspect scientific subject matter which must be mandated by government!
Jefferson: "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
Whether or not there is a superior reasoning power is a question that science cannot answer. That is a philosophical question. Science neither includes nor excludes God.
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