by KateWild 110 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Kate - The conversation is impossible until you define god.
Einstein rejected the notion of a personal god. This is beyond sensible dispute.
Maybe he was a Deist. Sometimes when he used the word he meant it as no more than a metaphor.
What he beleived about god is of no more significance than what the thought about Beethoven.
What he beleived about god is of no more significance than what the thought about Beethoven.-cofty
What people believe about God is singnificant to both you and me cofty. You show this with your posts. If I am mistaken, so be it. Learning about Einstien is also very interesting to me.
Fossils and evolution interest you, we are all different how exciting and fun that is
Kate xx
The conversation is impossible until you define god.-cofty
This is an excellent point. We can each define God in a different way if we choose to, when I say I believe in God..........I do not define God, I state my belief.
When you state you are an atheist, and there is no god, you do not define the non-existant god, you state your belief.
There was a well-received biography of Einsten only a few years ago. I believe Walter Isaacson was the author. He usually writes biographies of the Founding Fathers so I acquainted with his reputation. His writing style is very readable. I cannot understand all of the theories despite many attempts to do so. In general, I find biographies easier to understand than straight nonfiction descriptions.
Einstein's views were complex. If you have time, I highly recommend the book. My interest was only general knowledge. Einstein was a towering figure and still alive and living in Princeton when I was young. I never expected to read more than 20 pages b/c the science would be too hard.
I do know about the Founding Fathers. George Washington's views on religion and God are the subject of never-ending debate and books. Abraham Lincoln, too.
References to God or a deity may only be cultural. It does not mean the person believed in God, the way Roman Catholic creeds or Protestant affirmation define God. Atheists were/are persecuted.
jgnat-nice little interview. The science was interesting and easy to understand too
Band- I will check that Authour out too. 1955 is way before my time. But I my parent were both alive when he was.
"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me that can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as science can reveal it."
March 22, 1954.To an admirer who questioned him about his religious beliefs. Quoted in Dukas and Hoffmann, 'Albert Einstein, the Human Side', p.43. Einstein Archives 39-525
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" In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views."
Said to German anti- Nazi diplomat and author Hubertus au Lowenstein around 1941. Quoted in his book, Towards the Further Shore( London, 1968), 156. With this remark, Einstein disassociates himself from atheism; see Hammer, 'Einstein and Religion', 97
' The Ultimate Quotable Einstein" Collected and edited by Alice Calaprice.
" In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views."-rip
I love it, its as if he were talking from the cosmos of space and time. But really we know it's from a book. Einstien is a legend to me
Tammy - would a Dr. Zuess worshipper eat green eggs and ham?
Kate, for me this is Einstein .................
"The search for truth is more precious than its possession." - Albert Einstein
