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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (154524)	2/11/2009 9:19:56 PM
From: one_less	2 Recommendations Respond to of 173976

Nice passage. Einstein attempted aloofness regarding faith. Rabis and Priests tried to pin him down but that wasn't possible largely because of Einstein's skepticism toward dogma and distrust for authority. He has been labeled a Pantheist and that is probably fair. "In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognise, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support for such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University Press, p. 214) But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. (Albert Einstein, 1941) So, you can stop with Einstein and go with what has now become Pantheistic dogma or pick up where he left things. Einstein commonly referenced faith (Pantheistic) and eternity but wouldn't deal with the question of an individual soul persisting beyond or apart from a biological individual, or connected in any way to immortality. In this sense he was very deliberately anti-religious. He also viewed the questions regarding 'Meaning of Life' and 'Purpose' as relevant humanistically and temporally only, but in that context he viewed these questions as qualifying to human existence. "The answer is, in my opinion: satisfaction of the desires and needs of all, as far as this can be achieved, and achievement of harmony and beauty in the human relationships." Hoffman and Dukas, pp. 26 - 27.

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (154524)	2/12/2009 2:04:12 AM
From: average joe	4 Recommendations Respond to of 173976

"Their persuasions by means of fictions are innumerable; for if everyone had recollection of the past, knowledge of the present, and foreknowledge of the future, the power of speech would not be so great. But as it is, when men can neither remember the past nor observe the present nor prophesy the future, deception is easy; so that most men offer opinion as advice to the soul. But opinion, being unreliable, involves those who accept it in equally uncertain fortunes." Encomium on Helen - by Gorgias