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To: PatrickHenry

Perhaps someone should spend more time looking at the quotes from many of teh best scientists in the world - including Albert:

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
"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."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

Enoough said. There are many. many more great minds who at LEAST believe in intelligent design, if not the God of Christian understanding.


7 posted on 09/29/2005 4:19:47 AM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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To: txzman
Perhaps someone should spend more time looking at the quotes from many of teh best scientists in the world - including Albert:

You're confusing the issue. Many scientists are religious--Christian, Moslim, Buddhist, Jewish--but do not believe in a literal creation as presented in the Bible. The evidence is for evolution, while there is none supporting a literal creation.

43 posted on 09/29/2005 5:44:11 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: txzman
Perhaps someone should spend more time looking at the quotes from many of teh best scientists in the world - including Albert

Einstein never believed in a personal god of creation. Einstein's closest views on creatron would best be described as a hands off, distant type of god that set things in motion and let evolution take it's course. Too many creationists hijack Einstein's comments as an indication he was deeply religious. He was not.

76 posted on 09/29/2005 6:17:41 AM PDT by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: txzman
Perhaps someone should spend more time looking at the quotes from many of teh best scientists in the world - including Albert:

Yay! Einstein quotes! My turn!

Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.
~Albert Einstein

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.
~Albert Einstein, March 24, 1954

During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution, human fantasy created gods in man's own image who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate influence, the phenomenal world... The idea of God in the religions taught at present is a sublimation of that old conception of the gods. Its anthropomorphic character is shown, for instance, by the fact that men appeal to the Divine Being in prayers and plead for the fulfillment of their wishes... 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 vase power in the hands of priests.
~Albert Einstein, reported in Science, Philosophy and Religion: A Symposium

157 posted on 09/29/2005 9:09:44 AM PDT by Antonello
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