Apo said-
I'm sure she did. Kate's style of communication is unusually dishonest, it's why I don't participate in her threads.
Kate's admitted to being a troll, and seems to think she can just repeat that willful misrepresentation of Einstein's views enough times, and it'll eventually become true. Such 'magical thinking' is the tactic of many a theist: utter disregard for evidence, which doesn't bode well for claims to be a scientifically-minded rational person.
Earnest said- But most do not think of him as having these anatomical parts in a physical sense - God is spirit - it's just human terms to explain something out of human experience.
Speaking of Einstein, his most famous equation (E = mc^2) actually rules out the concept of a Divine Being with a conscious mind existing as only "pure energy" (AKA a spirit), since although the equation allows for matter and energy to be inter-converted into each other, if the 'matter' side of the equation drops to zero, so must the 'energy' side.
Outside of science fiction (eg Spock's famous line in Star Trek, sampled for use in the dance track by Information Society), there actually is no such thing as ‘pure energy’ found in the Universe, where energy can exist apart from matter; similarly matter cannot exist apart from energy.
It seems fairly self-evident to say that much like every other material in the known universe from which consciousness has emerged, ALL processes that result in consciousness to emerge require both matter AND energy (in the case of the human brain, the matter is the atoms that make up brain's neurons, and the constant energy consumed by the brain comes in the form of brain glucose, required to fuel all those hungry neurons; no energy means the individual loses consciousness). So Einstein’s famous equation implies that consciousness existing detached from matter is impossibility, since 'pure energy' cannot exist.
So keeping God alive as a ethereal spirit being (i.e. one devoid of matter) existing as only energy would require throwing out Einstein and his famous equation on it's butt, when the relationship has been experimentally-confirmed in many different ways for a century now, and the relationship is exploited every minute of every day via eg man’s manipulation of nuclear energy.
Of course, believers then simply claim God is above and beyond His own rules, and hence they engage in 'special pleading' on His behalf (doing so not only for moral questions, but also for physical laws).
Adam
