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skepticscott

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5. Except that's the only reason anyone mines this quote

Reply to pinto (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 5, 2013, 07:17 PM

Jan 2013

To show all those smarty-pants atheist scientists that they're not as smart as they think and that a Really Smart Scientist actually believed in "god". Ignoring of course that the "god" Einstein refers to is nothing remotely like the one they think we should all be bowing and scraping to, and could just as easily be dismissed as no such thing in the broader scheme.

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Einstein on wonder, mystery, religion and the marvelous structure of existence - [View all] pinto Jan 2013 OP

Einstein was in no sense religious in a sense that many have portrayed longship Jan 2013 #1

Because they just like saying to atheists skepticscott Jan 2013 #2

I think it's pointless in framing things in an atheist v theist framework. pinto Jan 2013 #4

Except that's the only reason anyone mines this quote skepticscott Jan 2013 #5

Ascribing a definitive or blanket intent to anyone's comment is pointless, as well, imo. pinto Jan 2013 #7

Uh, well sometimes it isn't skepticscott Jan 2013 #8

But Einstein did have enough class not to waste his time futilely ranting humblebum Jan 2013 #9

Yeah, he was clear from what I've read about rejecting an anthropomorphic deity. pinto Jan 2013 #3

Agreed. longship Jan 2013 #6

A complex and thinking man, as the two threads about him here show. cbayer Jan 2013 #10

Nice quote; interesting essay. deutsey Jan 2013 #11