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Old December 10th 06, 06:53 PM posted to alt.astronomy
Double-A[_1_]
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Default Einstein was an atheist... and so was Isaac Asimov


Painius wrote:
"Double-A" wrote in message
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nightbat wrote:
Double-A wrote:
46erjoe wrote:

Okay, he wasn't an idiot. I just wrote that to get you attention.

Einstein may have been a genius in his field but that doesn't mean he
was an expert in other fields, like theology and religion. He could
have been (and I believe he was) and idiot insofar as religion is
concerned. There's no way in hell he could have studied enough of the
source material to reach any informed conclusions. It takes as much
study to become a theologian as it does to become a physicist.

Do you think that four years of studying dogmas at a seminary gets one
any closer to ultimate truths?

Not
many people in our day and age can be true multi-disciplinarians. So
why all this **** about whether Einstein was an atheist or not, as
though whether he was or wasn't carries any weight? It's like asking
the Pope if he believes in string theory. If he does it must be true
etc etc

The Pope is held to infallible on matters of faith and doctrine, but is
string theory doctrine? Believing in it does take a lot of faith!

And the biggest idiots of all were the ones who posed the question to
AE in the first place as to whether he was an atheist or not. I'm
surprised old AE didn't just pop off: "Oh shut the f*** up and let me
do my science."

Einstein had a lot of opinions outside of science, but most people
never gave them much weight.

Double-A

Correct Commander first the coffee boys make fun and nominate
Team members for their original profound far advanced predictions,
theories, and give them silly awards and then accuse those same members
of plagiarism. How they wish they could come up with just one original
science discovery instead of constant playing with themselves. Dr.
Einstein did not like being made an authority and warned about seeking
it. The clueless ones seek attention and fame at the expense of the
dedicated researchers, for how they hang on your every word. Predictions
come and go but results remain forever. Clueless Saul is no exception,
for the observed melting mountain peaks and breaking or melting pole
icebergs do not deter his disbelieve, for he exclaims, I don't see any
Alps or icebergs melting in the desert. Everything here is perfectly
normal, what are you profound Earth Science Team Officers talking about?
You mean this stuff really is going on?

Dr. Einstein had to deal with the clueless, nothing new, and his genius
first wife had to deal with him. The annals of science are filled with
the greats having to deal with discovered advanced knowledge
understanding and at the time accepted miss true reality. Just remember
when standing in front of these in ah of you try to be kind, for they
mentally challenged can't help it, gray matter doesn't come with
instructions.

ponder on,
the nightbat


Thanks for you fine remarks, Captain General nightbat.

The coffee boys with all their silly awards have not been able to keep
their act together very well lately. Just goes to show their lack of
organizational ability.

Dr. Einstein and Dr. Tesla were visionaries of their times. That is
why their admirers study their every word. But still the scoffers try
to find fault wherever they can.

Yes, the Earth Science Team Officers are having to keep well apprised
of all the apocalyptic changes that are going on nowadays on this
troubled planet. Coffee boys run about clueless to their pending fate.
But we await FOC.

Atheists want to claim Einstein as one of their own despite his
proclaiming that God doesn't play dice. Yet Buzz Aldrin sensed
something surely divine after seeing for the first time the far side of
the Moon, and proclaimed, "goodnight, good luck, a Merry Christmas and
God bless all of you - all of you on the good earth."

Double-A


I've read this many times in many places... about
how Einstein was an atheist, a "non-believer". And
then you read about the God/dice/Universe thing,
and wonder if maybe the guy was more agnostic
than atheist?

Myself, i have no scientific evidence to support it,
but i was raised with a strong faith in a power that
goes way, way beyond any power of mankind. I
personally like this idea because i find it impossible
to accept that humans are the summit of life in the
Universe.

So it troubles me that such obviously and awesomely
intelligent, perhaps even wise people such as Einstein
and Asimov were atheists. Einstein found it totally
unacceptable that a benevolent, omnipresent and
omnipotent God could have possibly allowed the
atrocities of the 20th-century holocaust. And Asimov
based his personal atheism upon good, solid scientific
research and reason.

And i often wonder if this bothers anybody else?

happy days and...
starry starry nights!

--
Give the Devil an inch, and he'll take your Smile!

Indelibly yours,
Paine
http://www.savethechildren.org/
http://www.painellsworth.net



I think it takes a strong "faith" to believe that God does not exist,
because there is no proof that he does not. l do not have that kind of
faith.

Double-A