Einstein's philosophy of science is widely acclaimed, and he himself had widely read philosophy.
What god did Einstein believe in?
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Yakuda
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Morals are a different matter altogether.beliefs about creation have nothing to do with living a moral life.
Yakuda
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I don't know how it was put together but why does that matter? Are you suggesting that because I don't know how it was put together thats evidence it was created by chance and not a creator?
NO...I am just wondering why you say "...it was not put together by chance"...since, as I suspected...YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW IT WAS PUT TOGETHER.
Why eliminate one possibility?
So...
...WHY?
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Yakuda
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They are both important. Why would I take moral direction from an entity that has no connection to everything that exists?
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morality is rational.
I cannot make myself think that a mathematically rational and lawful universe would be produced by inanimate, irrational random chance. Neither could Einstein apparently.
If there is no rational agency underlying the creation of the universe, then there is no purpose, meaning, or moral truth. It's all just a cosmic accident.
Every belief is just opinion, social convention, or whim. You have no objective standing to express moral outrage.
You can tell yourself there is some ultimate meaning, and there is an objective absolute right and wrong. But you would be lying to yourself.
Yakuda
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No its not. Why shouldn't I be able to take what's not mine?
So in other words only an idiot would think that is was? I agree
Monad Portal
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Because it destroys trust and therefore our abilities to work together.
Retard fails again.
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Cooperation-facilitating beliefs are totally rational.
Only within the family unit, tribe, or herd.
Even prairie dogs do that. It's hard wired into the Darwinian survival of the fittest framework.
There is no reason from a scientific Darwinian basis to help strangers, rivals, enemies, the terminally sick, the diseased infectious.
If nothing exists but matter and energy, there is no innate value to human life. We are just collections of electrons and quarks, and the only scientific basis for life is to preserve and propagate our genetic information. Morality is an illusion, and you would be lying to yourself if you want to claim there is an objective standard of absolute right and wrong.