Is there a god?

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tombi123 said:
@kn

Einstein did not believe in a personal God.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but here is an interesting excerpt from "20 Things you need to know about Einstein".  http://www.time.com/time/2007/einstein/16.html.  I consider Time Magazine to generally be a good source and suspect they did a good bit of research before publishing this.

 

Did Einstein Believe in God?

Yes. He defined God in an impersonal, deistic fashion, but he deeply believed that God’s handiwork was reflected in the harmony of nature’s laws and the beauty of all that exists. He often invoked God, such as by saying He wouldn’t play dice, when rejecting quantum mechanics. Einstein’s belief in something larger than himself produced in him a wondrous mixture of confidence and humility. As he famously declared: “A spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe – a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort.”

When asked directly if he believed in God, he always insisted he did, and explained it once this way: “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 arrangement 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. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.”

It's amazing to me that a man of Einstein's intellect and who's theories have stood the test of time described his knowledge of the universe as "a childs".  Again, I look to quantum physics and discover all sorts of "laws" in classical physics are clearly at odds with quantum mechanics and vice versa.  If one were to truly study both, they will learn that much of what we know and accept to be absolutely true in science may actually just be an approximation or worse completely wrong.

No one is going to win this argument on this board and quite frankly it is silly to try.  Each of the "religions" of the world believe they are right and will continue to believe so.  Atheism is just one of those...