This is a paraphrase from Einstein. What do you think of this great scientists comment.
2007-05-05 11:58:14 · 23 answers · asked by purplepeace59 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I heard this on an interview and tried to source it but couldn't find it on the internet. This is not an exact quote. The quote was more in the line of everything coming together randomly is like throwing letters of the alphabet in the air and them falling down to spontaneously form a dictionary.
2007-05-06 00:11:24 · update #1
I kind of do and kind of don't. What if God put the one molecule next to the other and commanded, "Do your thing." and they just kept evolving into everything we see today? You can still believe in God and acknowledge that evolution is a process that sustains and leads to the progression of life. God laid down the blueprints, and Mother Nature did the rest. End of story.
2007-05-05 13:20:29 · answer #1 · answered by Hot Coco Puff 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Einstein. The way evolutionists have it now, everything started from nothing (they say "the Big Bang", but they never say where all that matter and energy came from). Somebody had to have created the universe; there's evidence of intelligent design throughout the world. Just like the universe had a creator, somebody had to come up with the idea for a dictionary and make it; it certainly didn't make itself. Face it, all you people out there: we were created by an intelligent designer (a.k.a. God). There's a video out there by Dr. Kent Hovind called "The Hovind Theory"; if anybody has any doubts about creation/intelligent design, watch this video, and it will all make sense. Here's a link (though the video is a little fuzzy):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4930240196747890104&q=hovind+theory&hl=en
I like your question because you're not criticizing evolutionists, and while I am a Christian, I don't like it when people do that because it gets people in an uproar, and then you get a whole bunch of crap flying, and people end up mad.
2007-05-05 12:26:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He is asking how someone can believe that all the world, all the universe just kind of "appeared" somehow. Think of the complexity of just your eyes. How could eyes just form by accident? It would be an insult to your intelligence to ask you to believe that if you put some ink and paper outside, and waited a few million years, that a Webster's Dictionary would have evolved right there (or any type of book). You would never believe that, but some people think that something as extremely complex as the entire universe came from even less than ink and paper. They think it came from nothing. He wants to question how hard someone can really have thought about the possibility of such a thing happening if they believe it.
2007-05-05 12:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by awr226 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a relatively standard, but narrow minded argument. Keep in mind even though Einstein was the most brilliant mind of his time, it was a time where Christianity and religion dominated everything.
It's taken something as powerful as the Internet to really get the arguments for atheism out to the masses. Back then most people where afraid to even bring up the notion that god might not exist for fear of being shunned.
I bet if you went back far enough you could find someone like a Plato, or a Socrates, or a Galileo who would have laughed at an idea that we think of as common sense today.
Just think about how many "brilliant" scientists laughed at Einstein's theories early on in their inception.
2007-05-05 13:04:51 · answer #4 · answered by Batman 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Surely it would be true to say that the dictionary is a result of evolution?
No-one is claiming that the Universe came about by evolution - just that life-forms within it evolve. I don't think Einstein would have disputed that.
2007-05-05 12:14:12 · answer #5 · answered by Tufty Porcupine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein also said that God does not play dice with the Universe.
I agree with this completely. Evolution plays a *partial* role in the universe, in terms of genetics and selection...but it is not all. You can't look at the world as a serious, thinking human being and not see the hand of an intelligence beyond our comprehension. I call it God and my husband calls it the Supreme Intelligence. Call it what you like, it's there, it's alive and working.
Those who wish to see man as the apex of evolution are afraid to look any higher for fear they will fall with a crash.
2007-05-06 00:43:06 · answer #6 · answered by anna 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fantastic, but it does evoke thought of religion etc,
But perhaps I am not enough of a genius to work out how the universe has come about, if not for evolution....
As for a dictionary, it is a lot like Yahoo answers, continually evolving, and not by accident, but through evolution...
Confused? I am.
2007-05-05 12:08:31 · answer #7 · answered by ng51online 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Einstein is reminding us that the theory of evolution says nothing about why things exist, it simply describes a process by which organic material lives and changes.
2007-05-05 13:31:06 · answer #8 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If creation is so simple as Darwinists think it is ,how come scientists haven't created life in the laboratory ? I am talking of a single celled organism ,not the Tasmanian tiger.Many people think Einstein was not brilliant here?I am stunned.
2007-05-07 00:02:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree wholeheartedly. The fact that Albert said it only fortifies what I think. This did not come about my accident. Nature tends to seek the simple, yet evolution says that complex is better than simple.
We were engineered by visiting aliens.
2007-05-05 12:09:30 · answer #10 · answered by mar m 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋