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A little girl called Phillis wrote to Albert and asked if he prayed.this was his reply.
24 jan.1936.
dear Phillis,
i will attempt to reply to your question as simply as i can.here is my answer.
Scientists believe that every occurrence,including the affairs of human beings is due to the laws of nature.therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer that is by supernaturally manifested wish.
However we must concede that actual knowledge of the forces is imperfect so that in the end the belief in the existence of a final ultimate spirit rests on a kind of faith.such belief remains widespread,even with current achievements in science.
But also everyone who is seriously involved in the persuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe,one that is vastly superior to that of man.in this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort,which is surely ouite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.
with cordial greetings.your Albert Einstein.
24 jan.1936.
dear Phillis,
i will attempt to reply to your question as simply as i can.here is my answer.
Scientists believe that every occurrence,including the affairs of human beings is due to the laws of nature.therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer that is by supernaturally manifested wish.
However we must concede that actual knowledge of the forces is imperfect so that in the end the belief in the existence of a final ultimate spirit rests on a kind of faith.such belief remains widespread,even with current achievements in science.
But also everyone who is seriously involved in the persuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe,one that is vastly superior to that of man.in this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort,which is surely ouite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.
with cordial greetings.your Albert Einstein.
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I am not sure, but I know that Einstein believed more in Emceesquared than Eminem.
I hope this is of assistance. |
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E= ONE OF THEM.
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Einstein said:
"the most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible" I think he was hinting that he believed that it was designed or created by someone or something and didn't just occur spontaneously or by chance |
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All them branes and he can't put a space after a puctuation mark or do capital letters proper. Hes a div.
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Einstein had previously explored the belief that man could not understand the nature of God. In an interview published in 1930 in G. S. Viereck's book Glimpses of the Great, Einstein, in response to a question about whether or not he believed in God, explained:
Your question [about God] is the most difficult in the world. It is not a question I can answer simply with yes or no. I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's Pantheism. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.[20] Think he believed in intellegent design. But not in a personnal god, such as prayer leading to divine intervention etc. |
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According to biographer Walter Isaacson, Einstein was more inclined to denigrate disbelievers than the faithful.[22] Einstein said in correspondence, "[T]he fanatical atheists...are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional 'opium of the people'—cannot bear the music of the spheres."[22][23] Although he did not believe in a personal God, he indicated that he would never seek to combat such belief because "such a belief seems to me preferable to the lack of any transcendental outlook."
so he favoured more those with a religious belief than atheists. |
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so did he, or not?
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bear in mind the timescale, we're talking the first half of the 20th century here. Any notion of a God back then is the man with the white hear and long beard watching over.
he described something that could be a creator, which of course could be possible. he certainly "did not discount the notion of a creator/thing/whateveryouwanttocallit creating everything we know". |
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Uncle Albert
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Anybody that believes that the Universe just happened is daft, imo. There had to be a creator of something so wonderful and so diverse. And in answer to the question that always follows such a statement, i.e. "Then where did God come from"? - he was created by his God and his God by his God and so on and so on. Everything that is possible is repeated on a grander scale.
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read the book the proof is there. no extracts or other bullshit. read the bbok that swayed Pascal.
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if einstein was alive today he would be an atheist........nap......the mighty mac..........youre having a laugh.........this is a natural world not a supernatural...........man made god.......not the other way around..........there is no invisible man in the sky.......nap
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thinly veiled "I haven't got a clue"
There has never been any proof of any god, any devil, any ghost, any alien or any monster, all myths until proven beyond all doubt. I was watching Russia Today, today, and they showed the dead bodies of the four kids that died on the beach in Gaza from the rocket attack, wish they hadn't sprung that on me but when you see such limbs twisted all over the place and bloodied, you know no god being could ever be that evil. Religion at best is a comfort, not a reality. |
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I wonder if he would be an atheist today when he wasn’t in the 1950s? It seems to me that there’s little we know now that we didn’t know or suspect then. If anything, the universe has started to look more digital and ‘everything’ has become information, from the stars we see to the food we eat. No one is arguing that “It’s all made up” isn’t a real possibility either. If anything I think he’d be less sure about everything.
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flower.........one in about ten million chance.........dont think we knew about dna in 1950
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Well DNA was discovered in 1869, but you're right in that it wasn't until the 1950s that the double-helix structure was discovered.
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I have a magnificent Swiss watch. I often open it up and admire the craftsmanship and watch it`s wonderful movements. I would never think for one moment that it just appeared out of nothing. I never saw anybody create it but I`m pretty sure that someone did. The same can be said of the Universe.
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Einstein spent a greater part of his later life trying to find a theory that would explain everything and he was deeply unhappy about the implications of quantum mechanics. He thought that incomplete or an aspect of something deeper, I think. Today we are not one really any closer than we were to figuring out how it all works together. In fact whilst his theories were verifiable through observation, later theories are philosophical ideas, not fact, with little hope of proving them in centuries, it seems. I don’t know, but I think if HE were not an atheist then he’d not really find any reason to be one now.
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the mightymac.........god of the gaps
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evolution should have killed off religon but people have a need for an higher power .......very sad
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there are hundreds of gods over the world........they cant all be true .......proof positive god is man made
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i have more respect for young earth creationists than religous people who believe in evolution.......at least they know that if evolution is true god goes out the window.......evolution and god are not compatible
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Why can`t there not be more than one God ?
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I believe in God and also know that Darwin was right.
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well youre daft then
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Well I`m in good company then. All the great minds throughout history can`t fathom it out and 50% of them believed or believe in a creator, including Hawkings and Einstein but to name a few.
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hawkings is a non believer..........einstein would be now
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>if evolution is true god goes out the window
err, no. maybe the story of evolution is at odds with the bible, but it doesn't prove that life wasn't created or designed. |
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einstein would have told you there was no higgs boson, he didn't knew everything,
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48% of the us believe in adam and eve........are these the people your in good company with
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erse.......doesnt proof its true either......this is a natural world.........no evidence of super natural
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shoud be united states
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i didn't say it proved anything true, just pointing out your statement is false.
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but there is zero evidence for a god.........so i am right
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just because science doesnt fully understand that doesnt mean a god or the tooth fairy did it
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should read........zero evidence for god having an hand in evolution.........and if he he did..........he done a shocking job........98% of living things are now exstinct
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and what if we're just one example of evolution on billions of planets, or there's an infinite number of universes... etc etc
our version could simply be a wrong variation or a stepping stone towards the 'correct' version of evolution. impossible to tell at the moment. btw einstein was agnostic for that reason. |
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has it been proven there is another universe ? and if there is where does one start another begin ?
like to call everything "the universe" ,which is 14B ish years old ,our Galaxy is 13.2B ish years old ,our solar system is 4.6B ish . There is no such thing as "correct evolution" imo ,its just a process ,things react and evolve to ever changing conditions, completely random sets of events ,there is no real improvement imo ,just natural selection .IMO Mother nature has only made one mistake imo which i am sure she will correct in due course God made everything in six days and on the seventh chit chat started whinging and moaning about everything  |
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god made everything in 6 days and then was pooped.........so had to rest
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