steve
PA Court rules with regard to ID teaching in schools.
by stevenyc 24 Replies latest jw friends
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Double Edge
What's ironic, is that one of the most brillant scientists the world has ever know, Albert Einstein, believed in intelligent design. Go figure.
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funkyderek
Double Edge:
What's ironic, is that one of the most brillant scientists the world has ever know, Albert Einstein, believed in intelligent design. Go figure.
What nonsense. Is that a deliberate lie or just a blunder born of ignorance?
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VM44
Albert Einstein did refer to God as the "Old One" at least once. It is in a book of Einstein Quotations.
--VM44
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VM44
Does anyone know if that 139 page ruling is online? --VM44
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eyeslice
There is no simple answer to the question; 'who are we and why are we here?'
This sort of debate will carry on for a long time yet.
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jstalin
Here's the ruling:
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acsot
Found this re Einstein and "god":
"Einstein always said that he was a deeply religious man, and his religion informed his science. He rejected the conventional image of God as a personal being, concerned about our individual lives, judging us when we die, intervening in the laws he himself had created to cause miracles, answer prayers and so on. Einstein did not believe in a soul separate from the body, nor in an afterlife of any kind.
But he was certainly a pantheist. He did regard the ordered cosmos with the same kind of feeling that believers have for their God. To some extent this was a simple awe at the impenetrable mystery of sheer being. Einstein also had an urge to lose individuality and to experience the universe as a whole.
But he was also struck by the radiant beauty, the harmony, the structure of the universe as it was accessible to reason and science. In describing these factors he sometimes uses the word God, and sometimes refers to a divine reason, spirit or intelligence. He never suggests that this reason or spirit transcends the world - so in that sense he is a clear pantheist and not a panentheist. However, this reason is to some extent anthropomorphic, and to some extent involves Einstein in a contradiction.
His religious thinking was not systematic, so he never ironed out this discrepancy. But it seems likely that he believed in a God who was identical to the universe - similar to the God of Spinoza. A God whose rational nature was expressed in the universe, or a God who was identified with the universe and its laws taken together. His own scientific search for the laws of this universe was a deeply religious quest."
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VM44
Thanks jstalin for finding that. --VM44
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VM44
It turns out that there is a new book about Einstein called "Secrets of the Old One". It can be found at Amazon. --VM44
