Play Trap the Atheist (The atheist delusion)

by hyjyljyj , Sunday, December 09, 2012, 14:20 (4369 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by unknown, Sunday, December 09, 2012, 14:25

"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."-Thanks for those, David--I've greatly appreciated and often repeated those quotes from Einstein ever since I learned of them in early 2000. -Not to nitpick the greatest genius the world has ever known but to be more accurate, one would have to acknowledge that, while religion without science is indeed blind, science without religion isn't necessarily lame, since one can certainly operate in a wholly legitimate, scientific manner without needing to resort to any religion whatsoever. One can instead simply say with complete integrity that science does not know how life began and may in fact never possess the tools with which to know it. Positing then the possibility of an intelligent designer/creator can be done in the complete absence of religion, which I might loosely define as the result of man's having artificially divided (or, one might say, 'hacked up') spirituality into warring factions based on rigid dogma and propaganda, to suit his craving for control of his environment. -Notwithstanding the aforementioned, we can accept and appreciate, of course, Einstein's usage of the term in the selected quote under poetic license.