[ExI] atheists de-baptize unbelievers:

[darren shawn greer]

>Einstein was an agnostic. He specifically denied believing in a
personal God. 

 

 

Entirely untrue. He was not agnostic but a believer.  Remember Einstein's often used quip to Bohr, that "God does not play dice."? Time magazine did an interview with him--you can probably find it on-line--where he discusses his belief in God. They also did another piece in 2006 about his stated belief, and how the Christians tried unsuccesfully to make him a poster boy--his God was static and non-interventionist. But if you do the research, you'll see enough to convince yourself, I think. BTW, he  referred to God as "the Old One."


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> From: stathisp at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:44:28 +1000
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Subject: Re: [ExI] atheists de-baptize unbelievers:
> 
> 2010/7/21 darren shawn greer <dgreer_68 at hotmail.com>
> >
> > >They're not all bad but they're still wrong. Truth is not a matter of
> > >utility: if the belief in a flat Earth could be shown to have a
> > >calming, positive influence on the life of the believer it is no less
> > >a false belief for that. The flat-earthers are generally harmless folk
> > >and perhaps we should leave them alone, but if they had vast amounts
> > >of money and influence and went about successfully turning people to
> > >their view they should be vigorously opposed.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > If it were a matter of something as concrete as a flat earth, then you simply show a picture of a round earth and there ends your argument. Any further discussion of flat earth is simply delusion. But it's unfortunately not a matter of the physical universe. There is neither anything in the universe that points to the necessity of a creator, nor anything that absolutely precludes one. As Huston Smith says, "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
> 
> There are infinitely many propositions that can neither be proved nor
> disproved, and the way we deal with them is for the most part to
> ignore them. Have you ever tried arguing with someone who is
> clinically diagnosed with a psychotic disorder? They have a ready
> answer to every objection you raise to their delusional beliefs.
> 
> Einstein was a believer in a God, because the laws he uncovered were
> so immutable and precise he could not imagine a process of physical
> creation without one. Was Einstein deluded? Perhaps. He still
> contributed greatly to modern science, as I doubt anyone here will
> argue.
> 
> Einstein was an agnostic. He specifically denied believing in a
> personal God. Still, it is possible to be deluded about one part od
> reality and still function relatively normally. In psychiatry that
> forms the distinction between delusional disorder and paranoid
> schizophrenia.
> 
> 
> --
> Stathis Papaioannou
> 
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