Einstein's God

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Einstein's God
OP - September 04, 2009, 06:43 PM

So I was in a chatroom and some Christian used Einstein's belief in God as a proof of God. Now I knew this was bull shit, as I remember Einstein being famous for saying, "I believe in the god of Spinoza" or somesuch. And so I google'd "Einstein's God" and found some awesome quotes from the old patent clerk .

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_einstein.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298,00.html

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Re: Einstein's God
Reply #1 - September 04, 2009, 07:24 PM

Einstein's god was science. He saw patterns in science, to him nothing in science was random. If he was a believer, it was probably more along the lines of pantheism. Not Yahweh for sure.

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Re: Einstein's God
Reply #2 - September 04, 2009, 07:45 PM

Quote from: awais on September 04, 2009, 06:43 PM
So I was in a chatroom and some Christian used Einstein's belief in God as a proof of God. Now I knew this was bull shit, as I remember Einstein being famous for saying, "I believe in the god of Spinoza" or somesuch. And so I google'd "Einstein's God" and found some awesome quotes from the old patent clerk .

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_einstein.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298,00.html

Muslims say the same thing lol

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Re: Einstein's God
Reply #3 - September 04, 2009, 07:50 PM

Quote from: Prosaic on September 04, 2009, 07:45 PM
Muslims say the same thing lol

Yeah Harun f'ing Yahya keeps misquoting Einstein.
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Re: Einstein's God
Reply #4 - September 04, 2009, 07:59 PM

Quote from: 20yearstoolong on September 04, 2009, 07:50 PM
Yeah Harun f'ing Yahya keeps misquoting Einstein.

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Re: Einstein's God
Reply #5 - September 04, 2009, 09:20 PM

Interesting Time article, thanks!

This reminds me, need to try and understand string theory again, to find out how/where all matter comes from ...

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