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- BigManOnCampus, on 05/13/2008, -115/+982Why do we care? Are we attempting to make a saint of Einstein? Think for yourself. Einstein would be the first person to tell you to think things out on your own.
- rikkizenith, on 05/13/2008, -148/+642spoken like a true genius.
- reustmd, on 05/13/2008, -31/+511The notion that Einstein wasn't religious has been common knowledge to anyone who actually read his work for quite a while...
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -16/+482"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."
-Einstein, 1954. - themarq, on 05/13/2008, -47/+388It only matters because time and time again the Christians have held up Einstein as the "Uber Scientist" who believed in god. This example, in their minds, was intended to illustrate that science and religion are compatible in some way. After all, if the worlds most famous scientist was a god fearing christian then you should believe as well.
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -31/+164Finally, now will the religious people please stop using his quote, "God does not play dice", to insinuate that Einstein believed that God is pulling the strings?
- CharlesDance, on 05/13/2008, -16/+113This is nothing new.
- modusop, on 05/13/2008, -5/+89Did you read the article? Einstein was appalled by either 'camp' trying to use his statements as justification for what they do. I agree with BigManOnCampus, Einstein's reverence was for the grandeur of the universe and by it's ability to be understood by us, not for a specific ideology.
- jcastillo81, on 05/13/2008, -11/+92source?
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -15/+104That there exists a supernatural being manipulating our universe is a hypothesis with no supporting evidence.
- Janizzary, on 05/13/2008, -26/+102I think his views on God & faith are just as conflicted as everyone else. Just because he was a genius in the truest sense of the word doesn't give him special insight into the metaphysical...
- Hetman, on 05/13/2008, -4/+69He was jewish anyways. Even if he was the most religous Jewish person according to you he would still be burning for his sins.
- BryanG412, on 05/13/2008, -147/+225This just in: God doesn't exist
- johnsaulrubio, on 05/13/2008, -12/+76Probably his pastor.
- LoganVH, on 05/13/2008, -11/+77I always thought his religious beliefs were quite clear...
"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." - Nougat, on 05/13/2008, -6/+68Religion is dogma. Philosophy is not.
- AmaDaden, on 05/13/2008, -5/+65Yes but people who did not read his work or did not want to see that side of it have been putting words in his mouth for years. This should put a stop to all that.
- degron, on 05/13/2008, -6/+62I'll burn one for your sins.
- Ourcellardoor, on 05/13/2008, -27/+81I'm going to respectfully digg you down.
- houndeyex, on 05/13/2008, -7/+59Einstein's letter makes view of religion "relatively" clear
I see what they did there. - amfort, on 05/13/2008, -6/+62I must have missed that at church... because I've never heard anything about Einstein's faith. What he did or didn't think of God has had no affect on my faith, or the faith of anyone else I know.
- consoneo, on 05/13/2008, -4/+53Nice, but completely irrelevant to the post you replied to..
- pmrx, on 05/13/2008, -14/+64Thank you; a rational comment for this thread.
People need to put stock in their own opinions and actions, not just the opinions of those deemed genius. People generally love Einstein, until you start talking about how he treated his wife, for example. - UberNick, on 05/13/2008, -7/+56It's called Pantheism, and it's a sort of a running joke among physicists. They're simply giving the title of "God" to inanimate objects like the universe or physics. Hawking does this all the time, while monotheists completely miss the point and get a fuzzy feeling that he's talking about their special friend in the sky.
- GanjaGirl, on 05/13/2008, -22/+73What do his personal beliefs have to do with his scientific and mathematic accomplishments? Sadly, I'm sure there are those who will discredit him specifically because he wasn't a Christian.
- minoss, on 05/13/2008, -32/+79Of course you are. You've already shown a willingness to believe anything you want to believe without evidence. Not believing something you don't want to believe despite evidence can't be much more of a stretch.
- aupton, on 05/13/2008, -62/+120Religious people are people in need. The need to be a part of something. They need for rules and structure. Without them they're lost... My mother in law is extremely religious and the thought of not jumping through the hoops that her religion set in stone for her is completely absent.
Religion is a mental jail, created by early man to provide answer, reason, and a way of life for those that are not strong enough to pave their own path.
I feel sorry for religious people because they just don't have the mental ability or in some cases its just will power to look outside the box and become an individual, not a product of the ramblings of an ancient desert dweller from 12,000 years ago...
Religion is also a tool used by all modern governments to control the masses and works well when they need to rally the public opinion in their favor... - d686, on 05/13/2008, -2/+42*****. the same is said about darwin. richard dawkins had a great line about this... (paraphrased) "on my deathbed i'm going to have a tape recorder running. no one is dumbing me down when i die"
- Samohtneas, on 05/13/2008, -1/+42Source?
- kinerry, on 05/13/2008, -7/+44Disagreeing with facts doesn't change them
- Hetman, on 05/13/2008, -1/+38You know he really did not have much to do with the making of the atom bomb. He did not work on the manhatten project. Anyways a lot of modern day technology must use the theory of relativity to be able to keep everything in synce. This includes almost anything that is run through a satelite.
- alz0rz, on 05/13/2008, -2/+38his ass
- Shawn4168, on 05/13/2008, -17/+57"Despite his categorical rejection of conventional religion, Brooke said that Einstein became angry when his views were appropriated by evangelists for atheism. He was offended by their lack of humility and once wrote. 'The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'"
- patosan, on 05/13/2008, -12/+48Einstein's views on religion are not easily categorized as he even had some trouble himself. However, it is obviously false to say that he was not religious, even though his was not religion any of the traditional ones we think of today (Christianity, Judaism, etc.).
"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God." - Einstein
"In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views." - Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Einstein - bridow, on 05/13/2008, -19/+55We care because many claim him to be the smartest man of the 20th century and religious zealots have always said he was a firm believer in God. Thus, making the point that if he believe in religion, it must be true because his I.Q. was ~160.
- justice7, on 05/13/2008, -13/+50it is human nature to want to belong. To call people weak such as you are is bigotry. You appear to have a lot of angst against religious people; perhaps you're afraid of something you don't understand? I'm not advocating religion, i'm just saying your post was a bit derogatory.
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -3/+35The difference is, when we have a hypothesis with no supporting evidence, we don't automatically assume it as fact. You are asking scientists to accept without supporting evidence the concept of God as fact, which is completely incompatible with scientific thinking.
- RealmDown, on 05/13/2008, -2/+33That is probably why it is on the front page.
- sandburn, on 05/13/2008, -3/+28agreed. irrelevant.
and 10% is ***** for scientific accuracy - AmaDaden, on 05/13/2008, -1/+26Science is not magic. We don't MAKE areas of science we discover and study them. Someone would have figured out that area of physics at some point and they would have realized the potential for a bomb. It was never an "if we understand it" or a "who can figure it out" it was just "when will we figure it out".
- DiggsOnlyJew, on 05/13/2008, -3/+29Intelligence Quotients are normalized to the population so the average becomes 100 with a standard deviation of 15, this means that almost 90% of all people have an IQ above 80. I hardly find it possible that 10% of the world or even the country believes in religion...
- blackeagle613, on 05/13/2008, -11/+36Ben Stein? is that you?
- MxM111, on 05/13/2008, -2/+25That^ was the most useless comment on digg I have seen for a while. Even more useless than this comment.
- chromerium, on 05/13/2008, -2/+25@cdahlkvist
Actually, research only continues on a given subject if there is supporting evidence. The evidence may just be a thought experiment, or an indication that something behaves in a certain way, but generally scientists don't investigate something that has zero evidence to support it at the time.
Black holes, quantum physics, galaxies, etc are all indirectly evidenced by things such as being able to observe the effects these things have on what we can observe.
The is no point 'researching' the question of a supernatural being, because there is zero, nil, none, nothing, zilch, nada - to support the assertion that there is one.
You can 'research' it all you want, but if you have to use some book that some guy wrote and was agreed on in a committee, you've failed. - frazw, on 05/13/2008, -2/+26With all due respect, the process of burying generally requires digging in a downward direction.
- inactive, on 05/13/2008, -16/+43It's really sad how you try and paint religious people as stupid or intellectually inferior as a whole just to try and prop yourself up to justify your belief system which is just as reliant on faith as theirs. Until you come to terms with that you will always live in the dark. You are no better than those who are ultra religious that say athiests are stupid.
You want to live your life in a belief system of no God? Thats great, do it because it is your right. Why don't you grant other people the opposite right they are entitled too instead of being an ***** while you are at it. - empiric, on 05/13/2008, -7/+36On the other hand, he was an ardent advocate of Judaism, and extensively published as such, for... apparently no cohesive underlying reason at all.
While a great physicist, probably best to characterize his philosophical beliefs as "confused". - BigManOnCampus, on 05/13/2008, -17/+41If you need "saints" to defend your athiest "beliefs" for you, then I doubt your lack of faith.
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