Re: An interesting view.

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:21:58 EDT, "T.H. Ray"
<thray123@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Angus wrote:

[Actually, I was quoting]

Einstein held that the main source of the present-day conflicts between
the spheres of religion and of science lay in "the concept of a personal
God" for that was to think of God in an anthropomorphic way, and to
project into him figurative images and human psychological notions of
personality, which give rise, he held, to religious practices of worship
and notions of providence shaped in accordance with human selfish
desires. [...]

Pure nonsense.

[...]

The easily verified and very simple fact is, that Einstein
most certainly did not believe in a personal god. He was
very clear on that subject [...]

As you can verify by reading what I posted! Duh.

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