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Co-Founder of String Theory and Physicist, Michio Kaku believes in God, if not that God
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Posted on 03/01/2019 9:44:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: Steely Tom

He helped birth String Theory.

Einstein is in his own class. Nearly everything he theorized has turned out being nominally proven. You look at all the massive names in science, and they were in most cases right in a big way once. Rutherford’s theory of the atom was sort of right - right enough at the time.


61 posted on 03/01/2019 1:53:07 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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62 posted on 03/01/2019 1:57:14 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
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63 posted on 03/01/2019 2:07:10 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: mbarker12474

“Einstein’s suggestion that there are two types of god: “One god is a personal god, the god that you pray to, the god that smites the Philistines, the god that walks on water. That’s the first god. But there’s another god, and that’s the god of Spinoza. That’s the god of beauty, harmony, simplicity.”

For being such a smart guy, Einstein sure was dumb. A quick read-through of the Bible would show that the Creator God of the Bible is all of that - and more. (Infinitely more, in the true sense of the term infinite).


64 posted on 03/01/2019 2:14:35 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: rollo tomasi

I was able to click on it and track it down. Great stuff!


65 posted on 03/01/2019 2:27:08 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: 21twelve
For being such a smart guy, Einstein sure was dumb.


66 posted on 03/01/2019 2:36:08 PM PST by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
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To: Steely Tom
"Why is he {Michio Kaku} so prominent?"

Michio Kaku pronounced as MITCH-E-O_____A-COCK-OO

I've listened to this man a least a couple of dozen times or more on different subject's.

I've alway's felt that he took the time to explain the different subject's (while on the radio, being interviewed, and peppered with question's) so even an idiot like me could grasp the true nature of the subject matter.

I'm probably one of the cheapest person's on the face of this planet, I would pay depending on subject matter, to hear this man's thought's on a given subject that interest's me. Yes, I'm some what of a science nerd, although I sucked at it in High School.

67 posted on 03/01/2019 3:06:12 PM PST by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's lie, only while testifying, as taught in their respected Police Academy(s).)
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To: Steely Tom

I read one of his first books on dimensions about thirty years ago. Brilliant.
His understanding of God is very considered and goes beyond the normal. Listen to what he’s saying.


68 posted on 03/01/2019 3:12:08 PM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buarsh)
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To: reed13k

I think you’re referring to “Pascal’s Wager”. Pasteur was a biologist & chemist. Pascal was a mathematician, physicist & theologian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager
Blaise Pascal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

Now Pasteur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur


69 posted on 03/01/2019 3:29:27 PM PST by Reily
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To: 21twelve

Sounds like the traditional Jewish view of God in His aspect of Elohim, the God of nature, and God in His aspect of YHVH, Divine Providence.


70 posted on 03/01/2019 3:33:50 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: jjotto

It sounds like you have a good knowledge of that sort of thing - thanks.

So I had to read up on the “god of Spinoza”. (I was thinking it was another actual god - something akin to the Spagetti Monster!)

Turns out that it refers to “Baruch Spinoza, one of the greatest philosophers of his day, who was expelled from the Amsterdam synagogue in 1656 because of his unorthodox religious views.”

The little reading that I did on him - his views aren’t so far out there.


71 posted on 03/01/2019 4:06:07 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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To: 21twelve

Oh - and apologies to Albert - for thinking he thought there was an actual “God of Spinoza”. (NOW who is the dumb one!!??)


72 posted on 03/01/2019 4:08:34 PM PST by 21twelve (!)
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Thanks fieldmarshaldj.

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73 posted on 03/01/2019 4:26:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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74 posted on 03/01/2019 4:27:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: mbarker12474

That is why I, with a background (and scholastic awards) in the physical sciences, have only passing interest in such things.

Faith cannot be proven. There is historical evidence for the Resurrection, but not scientific proof.

Believe or do not believe. That is the issue.

(Plenty on the science side exercise faith, too, on certain subjects. They just do not as a rule admit it.)


75 posted on 03/01/2019 4:42:01 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Lord Jesus said clearly, “God is Spirit.” “No man has seen God at any time.”

Science cannot know spirit.

But faith can. And so can spirit.

When the Holy Spirit opens one’s spiritual eyes, he sees what he has never seen before - and after seeing - he KNOWS!


76 posted on 03/01/2019 7:19:43 PM PST by Arlis
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To: SeekAndFind
The square root of negative one is known as ‘i’ or the imaginary number. It's a bizarre concept that seems like a complete product of the imagination but which works so well in actual proofs that mathematicians embrace it fully. God is another similar concept. It simply works once you accept it
77 posted on 03/01/2019 7:49:08 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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Thank you all for pushing back against my negativity. I’ll give Professor Kaku a better look; I was undoubtedly too hasty and extreme in my dismissal of him.


78 posted on 03/01/2019 7:52:13 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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