If so, you need to acknowledge that he said that a very wise being created everything, it was no accident of some explosion (which destroys, not creates). Basically, Einstein was a believer, not a scientist that believed in the big bang theory.
2007-12-26 14:13:08 · 36 answers · asked by MadforMAC 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
thanks for posting that question.
Its sure to sting a very hell bounders
2007-12-26 14:16:56 · answer #1 · answered by palma 5 · 2⤊ 5⤋
I have known many men who were very intelligent and who believed in God but that does not change how I personally feel. Just because someone else believes and I respect them it does not mean that I can just turn on a belief that I do not have. To me believing isn't a valve, or a switch, or a popular vote and it isn't a debate. I cannot speak for anyone else but I know that if I said "I Believe" it would be a lie. What would be the point of professing a lie - other than it would make those among the Christians who are legalistic and fools stop pestering me about it. I do not believe it in my heart so why should I tell a lie? Who would such a lie serve?
2007-12-26 14:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by Michael Darnell 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Einstein was, at most, a believer in Spinoza's God.
2. He warned against using himself as an example of religious sentiments (very Buddhist, I'd say)
3. Comparing the Big Bang to a destructive explosion is misunderstanding it grossly.
4. The thrust of your argument is an appeal to authority.
Other than everything you said, you're right.
2007-12-26 14:29:46 · answer #3 · answered by Doc Occam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He admitted he was wrong.
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity predicted that the universe is expanding. Einstein did not believe this implication of his own theory, so he added a term in his equations that he called the cosmological constant.
HOWEVER, Einstein, to his credit, visited Hubble (who discovered that the universe was expanding), examined the data, and admitted to the biggest blunder of his life. Hubble's work convinced Einstein that the universe is expanding after all, and that his cosmological constant was not needed to keep his general theory of relativity from predicting that the universe is expanding.
Add: Re his being a believer, a quote from him:
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
2007-12-26 14:20:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
You are so typically wrong.
Einstein was a deist.
If you had ever actually read any of his books, read any of his papers and conversations, you would know that your statement is simply ridiculous.
He was well on his way to exploring the beginnings of the universe at the time of his death....others completed his works. He never, ever once said anything about "creationism" or some god thingie snapping everything into existence.
One can believe in a diety without believing the rest of the B.S. that is written in the bibles and other religious texts.
2007-12-26 15:01:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have grossly distorted Einstein's words and beliefs. But even so, you confuse being a genius with infallibility. Einstein was wrong on several issues, including issues he had with quantum mechanics.
And BTW, it was a Catholic priest who first proposed the Big Bang Theory
2007-12-26 14:33:23 · answer #6 · answered by Benji 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A. Non-Believers of What?
B. Einstein is definitely not a Christian believer.
C. Einstein, at best, was an pantheist.
D. Who died and made you spoke person for all the scientists in the world?
E. If you want to use scientists for your cause, try to use Newton instead, at least Newton was a devoted celibate christian.
2007-12-26 14:27:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was smart in some ways, idiotic in others. And he was an Atheist, did not believe in a soul, and saw ethics as entirely a human endeavor. Here are some quotes to ponder:
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
"I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science."
"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
"From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.... I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our being."
But it does not matter what anyone believes, no matter how smart. It only matters what is true.
2007-12-26 14:23:23 · answer #8 · answered by neil s 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The point you make is exactly the reason I don't understand why so many people in the science fields are considered to be so smart. Consider the following:
-Einstein's ideas were light years beyond those of his contemporaries. The hallmark of his genius was what I would call "original thought".
-If you read what Einstein said during his life, there are many quotes indicating he believed there was a God, yet the best-and-brightest minds of today, the people we consider to be geniuses dismiss anyone who believes in God as unintelligent.
2007-12-26 14:41:08 · answer #9 · answered by jess_symgai 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mad,
Einstein was a brilliant mathematician. He worked with some of the greatest science minds of his time. He was a Jew and fled Germany as a result of the "War to end all wars". There are many math and science people that are confirmed believers in GOD. Have a wonderful week.
Thanks,
Eds
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2007-12-26 14:23:53 · answer #10 · answered by Eds 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would guess that everything that came together did in fact cause quite a ruckus wow the power of God... That kind of power If you were to take the most powerful bomb that can wipe out everything... you'd have to say but God made all the stuff that the bomb is made of so that makes him more powerful..... There's nothing that we can ever think of that would ever come close to the power of god So Einstein know he got his brain power from God and used it while he was alive he was an odd man But he knew God
2007-12-26 18:09:30 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋