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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (12744)	6/22/2002 7:26:49 PM
From: epsteinbd	Respond to of 28931

Some phrasing here to check : I do not see where he admits to a god as a thinker, or even a philosophers. In his short quotes Einstein says " I am a deeply religious nonbeliever." And just so in many other parts. Now when he writes some Rabbi, he doesn't tell him your god is nonexistant. He cant do that, he his Einstein, its a Rabbi. You want the whole Jewish Lobby to stand up against him ? But I can. I do. Some Friday afternoons, if a rabbi (young) tries to sell me this black string wrapped on the forearm thing, I tell him why I don't do stripes, feathers might be considered. And usually the argue that it's not good not to believe, that they can do a blessing for me and that prayer is good for me. A lottery winning ticket should not be discarded, even. You can change that lottery for paradise, after you win. He is convincing. You pray, you are a good Christian ( I translate, for you), you get paradise. (Eve only, but for sure.) I also like it when Einstein says that non religion is not a philosophy. So you can accept him as a thinker, a philosopher, an artist in his insight, a limited human being like we all are, but surely not a prophet of God. No sir, Einstein is a prophet, like Mohammed. Professionaly, he does not tell you to believe him. He tells you (Eddington) to go to the island of San Thomé (1919), do pictures of the sun during the eclipse, and compare the stars close by to the sun (stars then visible) to other pictures, and to see that their place in the sky varies slightly, toward the sun. Attracted like. Matters curves space. (See you Euclides.) But they have no mass, these photons! How can it be? It is so, he said, because it is written here, on these formulaes of mine. I can't invent a phenomenon, I merely read that it must be so. Of course no one could understand, and I still do not comprehend the formulaes. Too long, too much. And when the scientific expedition sends by Morse the answer, the next morning to Europe, the bigs heads of the Royal Academy of Science (UK ) said that they couldn't sleep that night, and Einstein later said he had no problem. When he got the telegram in the morning, he is attributed to have said... Wait, what would you have said, had the world been against you, you who knew to what it is ruled. Well, he would have said, (sorry no link, it's books : "too bad for God.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (12744)	6/23/2002 9:12:10 AM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 28931

Energy...... >>Oh that Einstein had said on more than one occasion , that if there was any religion that could meet fully the demands of science (and art & philosophy) of the 20th Century... stcloud.msus.edu ...that religion would be Buddhism . Uncle Albert was a prophet of God and then some , hehe... had views just a little more expanded than a camel-driver from the 7th century. regards, ;-) Mars>>> .....and light is the bridge, boat and water which connects and supports us and everything to ALL truth and LIFE. Thanks Uncle Albert!! And thanks Mars! 119293!!