Author: bigfletch8bigfletch8 Date: May 14, 2008 07:31
On May 14, 6:23 pm, chazwin yahoo.com> wrote:
> Theist has often tried to claim Einstein as one of their own in order
> that their own bizarre claims look more reasonable. They mis-use
> quotes such as "god does not play dice", and famously "science
> without religion is lame, religion without science is blind". But
> these quotations are taken out of context and the "truths" they
> express are clear denials of the "personal" god that they insist upon
> foisting upon Einstein which he took some pains to reject thoroughly.
> Einstein's "god" has no personality; it does not intervene in, and has
> no relationship to human activity; it is in effect the laws of nature;
> there are no miracles.
> Einstein's god is, like that of Spinoza's, the order in the universe.
> It is not a person or entity separate from that universe.
>
> I reproduce the text in which the famous misquote "science without
> religion is lame.." to demonstrate that this does not show what it
> appears. The full sentence at the end of para. 4 is "The situation
> may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame,
> religion without science is blind.". Einstein invites us to consider
> that religion has (inadvertently) set goals for science, and has set ...
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