Precisely 100 percent of all the knowledge you have about physics and astronomy comes from subject matter experts. It didn't just randomly appear in your brain. But then you want to claim that expertise and professional authority carry no weight and do not matter
What god did Einstein believe in, anyway?
Einstein “was a pantheist who maintained certain Jewish traditions,” and he preferred to be called an agnostic and disliked militant atheists.
"I want to know God’s thoughts,” Albert Einstein once said. “The rest are mere details.” True quote. But what did Einstein mean by “God”?
He was raised a Jew, and likely believed in the God of Abraham . . . at least for a while. So folk like to claim him as one of their “own.” But then, so do atheists.
In truth, Einstein was likely at neither extreme, according to this new article at Big Think. The article cites a 1936 letter a sixth-grade girl wrote to Einstein, asking, “Do scientists pray, and what do they pray for?”
In his reply, Einstein wrote, “Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit 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 quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.”
Scholars generally agree that the theoretical physicist was an actual pantheist, believing that God is “in everything,” or that all is “at one with God.” In particular, as Einstein once told a rabbi, “I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.”
Big Think concludes that Einstein “was a pantheist who maintained certain Jewish traditions,” and that he “preferred to be called an agnostic and disliked militant atheists.
What god did Einstein believe in, anyway?
Einstein believed in the unseen—like gravitational waves, ripples in space and time. Now, we can see this, as shown by the 2017 Nobel Prize physics winners.bigthink.com
Good quotes! I don't remember that one from Hawking
Most scientists aren't typically known for pithy clever aphorisms!
All of it was revealed to Melchizedek!
Only in the mind of someone who cannot (or more correctly, WILL NOT) acknowledge that saying "there is a god" (or "there are no gods) IS NOTHING BUT A BLIND GUESS.
Thanks for outing yourself as an Atheist.
I am not an atheist.
Fair enough.
Quite right.
I understand your reasoning, but consider this:
Therefore, the 'supernatural' is natural.
Quite right. I call it the Church of No God. It is a fundamentalist style religion.
A paradox is never correct. She described a paradox. She is being irrational. It is not possible to argue both sides of a paradox. This came about because of her own illiteracy.
@Dutch Uncle isn't this the same person talking to himself? LOLFair enough.
Quite right.
I understand your reasoning, but consider this:
If God walked up to you and shook your hand and told you who He was, would you believe him?
Even THAT requires faith.
Therefore, the 'supernatural' is natural.
Quite right. I call it the Church of No God. It is a fundamentalist style religion.
The trouble is, too many people think this religion is 'atheism'. They don't know English.
YARP
You can't blame your socks on anybody else, Sybil.
Courtier's fallacy. Science isn't 'experts'. Science isn't a 'profession'. Science isn't an 'authority'.Precisely 100 percent of all the knowledge you have about physics and astronomy comes from subject matter experts. It didn't just randomly appear in your brain. But then you want to claim that expertise and professional authority carry no weight and do not matter
Correct. He does that. It's one of the reasons I think he's schizophrenic.
Didja ask your mom yet?
He was liking all of his own comments and responding to himself. what a loon!
You can't blame your socks on anybody else, Sybil.
Didja ask your mommy yet?
That you are.