Jan F. Rasmussen Loc: Denmark

From the link I gave earlier:

Einstein and religion

From everything we know about Albert Einstein, all this scholastic navel gazing would have bored him to tears. As a theoretical physicist he found the order and complexity of the universe awe-inspiring enough to call the experience "religious." As a sensitive human being he took a profound interest in questions of morality. But none of this, to him, pointed in the direction of a supreme being.

"It does not lead us to take the step of fashioning a god-like being in our own image," he explained when asked about the religious implications of relativity. "For this reason, people of our type see in morality a purely human matter, albeit the most important in the human sphere."

Robbie7 Loc: Northampton. England

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Jan F. Rasmussen Loc: Denmark

There is EVERY evidence, that he was NOT involved. It is the usual crap from the Theidiots...

jkm757 Loc: San Diego, Ca.

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MagicFad Loc: Clermont, FL

Your statement would have more credibility if you had left the parentheses out, you then turned it into name calling.

Bazamac Loc: Manchester, UK

Sorry, where's the name-calling?

MagicFad Loc: Clermont, FL

Although you may have the facts correct about the post itself, your colorful metaphors and insults portray you as a person of ignorance who can't state his opinion without resorting to name calling and insults.

MagicFad Loc: Clermont, FL

SingleViking, You stated your opinion well with out insulting anyone. Bravo!

MagicFad Loc: Clermont, FL

Thank you for stating your opinion without resorting to insults or name calling. Very much appreciated.

MagicFad Loc: Clermont, FL

There you go again with the "crap" stuff.

MagicFad Loc: Clermont, FL

Your reference to "theodicy" as dodgy logic.

Bazamac Loc: Manchester, UK

That's not name calling, it's an opinion. Do you know what theodicy is?

lovesphotos Loc: Colorado and Arizona

Evolution is too slow a process to witness personally for anyone. We don't live long enough for that. But we certainly see the evidence of it. And as for light and dark and heat, none are infinite, they are all bound by the limits of the physics. That is why we have words to describe them. As for God, I can't say that it exists. What exists is nature which operates in random and is responsible for the existace of everything...Just my nickle's worth of thought.

amyinsparta Loc: White county, TN

Which leads us to the belief that the same thing happened with the writing of the Bible, both old and new Testaments. The writers wrote a century or more after the fact and put words into Jesus' and others' mouths, in order to prove their beliefs of the day. And so we have a literal interpretation of a book that is metaphysical, magical, and so beyond literalism that it makes one's head spin. And we wonder why people have fallen away. We have gone beyond the notion that 'God' is an entity, living somewhere in a city lined with gold streets, who stays busy trying to convince, through his human mouth pieces, that all humans are sinners and the only way to get out of their situation is to believe someone outside themselves can 'save' them from a 'hell' that has also been made literal. And more than that, there are endless views of 'God', and every one of them thinks the others are infidels and going to hell. And we wonder why people gave up on all this?

We have made our god in our own image so that we may do as we wish and still pretend to be holy and separate ourselves from those we think are wrong. And we have been brainwashed to actually think that only our kind is going to be in 'heaven', whatever and wherever that may be. And we wonder why thinking people have given up on religion?

We need to deal with people's spiritual pains, not call them sinners. We do have a spiritual crisis in this country, but it isn't because people gave up on God, but rather because religion failed them. And religion failed because it no longer is based on love. If you don't believe that, then just listen to and read the words of those who purport to be followers of a loving God.

PNagy Loc: Missouri City, Texas

Pounder35, you have perpetrated a disingenuous act. You say you are not expostulating on religion, just passing on something someone sent you. That is the weasel's way out of responsibility. If you did not think this nonsense was important and sympathized with it, you would not have posted it here.

The post is a fabrication from beginning to end. As one other person pointed out, Albert Einstein was an atheist. Moreover, the so called professor in your story, who is allegedly also a scientist is given a failed script, even though it pretends to follow the principles of science.

The major fault the attempt to lead the reader to the conclusion that faith is just as important a component of science as it is in the belief in God. Ergo, one has to take it on faith that the professor has a brain. The fraudulence of this idea is that the professor's brain is verifiable, therefore does not rest solely on faith alone. Dissection of every vertebrate skull has shown a brain to reside in it, therefore it is preposterous to assume that the professor's skull might not have had a brain, especially since the functions of the brain are also well documented, and he was displaying them by speaking and moving about.

God, on the other hand, is not only unverified, but unverifiable. He is nothing but a theoretical construct; it is possible that he exists, but there is no factual proof.

The philosophical "proof" of god is equally problematic. Essentially, it rests on the argument of causation. Everything had to have a cause. Those causes had to have causes, as well, but this cannot regress to infinity, because that is absurd; therefore, there is an ultimate cause, known as god.

This line of reasoning is logically unsound, even though philosophy is the art of seeking truth through reason alone. Reason without logic is pretzel logic. The god argument begins with a premise "everything had to have a cause," then drops the ball by exempting god from it.

It saddens me that a grown man would waste his time with the kind of nonsense you thought all of us should read. It is an even worse commentary on collective reasoning ability that there is no shortage of readers who feel it really hits home. "Ah, now we have really told off those Godless atheists (Redundancy is deliberate.), and in their own language, yet." Take your victory lap; there are enough fools to cheer you on.