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To: stormer

Looking for links to answer that question have provided some interesting articles.

This physicist tries to postulate a designer very intelligent, but of course, not God.
http://www.physlink.com/Education/essay_weinberg.cfm

There’s this....
http://www.mtoomey.com/EinsteinViewOfGod.html

But this is what you’re looking for...
http://www.veritas-ucsb.org/library/origins/quotes/universe.html

“The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation ... His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.”

Albert Einstein


77 posted on 09/27/2009 8:01:54 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
When Einstein writes about “an intelligence of such superiority”, he isn't talking about the concept of god as you understand; he is discussing human potential and limitations. His view is that because of our capacity for understanding and the very short time we as individuals have to understand all that there is, we will always fall short. Collectively we may make strides, but as individuals we are limited.

“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.”

The “infinitely superior spirit” he admires and strives to affirm isn't God, it is the collective spirit of mankind.

Albert Einstein was a very smart man, not only for his scientific prowess, but for his commitment to humanism.

79 posted on 09/27/2009 8:22:34 PM PDT by stormer
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To: metmom

“The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation ... His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.”

Albert Einstein

Hey, thanks for the quote. I’ll add it to my collection of quotes on ID by great scientists. Of course the evolutionists will deny that it has anything to do with ID. Why? Beats me. All I can figure is that they have their heads in their butts.


84 posted on 09/27/2009 9:08:36 PM PDT by RussP
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