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

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (25187)	1/20/2007 11:13:05 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

I'm sorry to hear that. So much of life is by accident and cruel circumstance, eh? We just carry on...

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (25187)	1/20/2007 5:48:42 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

"Sometimes when people hear that one is an atheist, they say something like, "Oh, well, surely you believe in something." Or "You believe that the Universe is a wonderful place." And I say, "Yes, of course, the Universe is a wonderful place." And they say, "Oh, well, then you believe in God." And they are using "God" in the Einsteinian sense of a kind of metaphor for that which is mysterious and wonderful in the universe. And the more the physicists look into the origins of the universe, the more wonderful it does seem to become. Without a doubt there is cause for something approaching worship or reverence that moves scientists such as Einstein, and Carl Sagan, and, in my humble way, myself. Einstein was very fond of using the word "God" to refer to that feeling of non-personal reverence. Richard Dawkins quoted from alternet.org Posted on TVFTC.