Play Trap the Atheist (The atheist delusion)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 08, 2012, 17:59 (4370 days ago) @ hyjyljyj

hy: but people like Albert Einstein could. I refer to him a lot just because he is such an icon of superintelligence whom no one can claim to supersede in that area...and also because there are still far too many out there who simply assume he remained a Jew (spiritually speaking) his entire life. By most accounts he rejected Judaism out of hand at age 12. He rejoiced in the quest to understand what tip of the universal iceberg he could with his "finite brain" as he called it, while simultaneously rejoicing in the mystery of the parts he could never grasp, which he freely admitted was the vast majority of it. -Einstein ended up as agnostic. My email signature contains an important kernel of his philosophy:-"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own—a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in Nature." And: " Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." -He remained Jewish otherwise and was asked to become President of Israel when that nation was formed. That offer makes no sense to me and he logically refused the honor.