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Time Magazine has a great article about Einstein's views on faith. So it seems that Einstein was a kantian. (According to the critic of pure Reason, nothing can ever be known about metaphysics, so let's just not try. Which makes the case for being neither religious nor atheist, but agnosticist. ) good analogy by einstein...clever guy... What the child fails to see is that there are more rooms filled with Blue-Ray disks floor to ceiling filled with even more data. I wouldn't say from his quote that Einstein was strictly agnostic. More than saying "I don't know whether there's a god or not" he seems to say say "look at this marvelous structure throughout the universe - there's something bigger at work here that we don't understand yet" That's what I got out of it too. Here's another quote: "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my [Einstein's] religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." Reverence for nature can be made to sound like religion. But as he says above, Einstein is not religious. He says he doesn't believe in a personal God, that's right, but this bit pretty much makes him religious in my book. What else would this "force" be, he is talking about, underneath it all? Well, if not religious, then at least he's spiritual IMO: "Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious." Another Einstein quote: "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings." |
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