From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 23:22:02 MDT
From: <karen@smigrodzki.org>
> Damien wrote:
> Life is so complicated. :)
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not for the simple-minded. ;) As far as Eintein's religious
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^views, he said once that his view of god was very close to
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^Spinoza's. Perhaps someone more well-read than I could tell
me ^^^^^^^^^^^^^what that would mean.
Einstein's quote regarding Spinoza's God was: "I believe in Spinoza's God
who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who
concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."
Michael Gilmore wrote an article regarding "Einstein's God," that concluded:
"Although not a favorite of physicists, Einstein, The Life and Times, by the
professional biographer Ronald W. Clark (1971), contains one of the best
summaries on Einstein's God: "However, Einstein's God was not the God of
most men. When he wrote of religion, as he often did in middle and later
life, he tended to...clothe with different names what to many ordinary
mortals--and to most Jews--looked like a variant of simple
agnosticism...This was belief enough. It grew early and rooted deep. Only
later was it dignified by the title of cosmic religion, a phrase which gave
plausible respectability to the views of a man who did not believe in a life
after death and who felt that if virtue paid off in the earthly one, then
this was the result of cause and effect rather than celestial reward.
Einstein's God thus stood for an orderly system obeying rules which could be
discovered by those who had the courage, the imagination, and the
persistence to go on searching for them."
"Einstein continued to search, even to the last days of his 76 years, but
his search was not for the God of Abraham or Moses. His search was for the
order and harmony of the world. "
O.
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