[meteorite-list] OT transpermia vs. God vs. Science

From: JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:12:44 -0500
Message-ID: <C0A7919A40194925B679812DF5B45C68_at_ET>

Einstein was a Deist who went to Catholic School.

One particular evening in 1929, the year he turned 50, captures Einstein's
middle-age deistic faith. He and his wife were at a dinner party in Berlin
when a guest expressed a belief in astrology. Einstein ridiculed the notion
as pure superstition. Another guest stepped in and similarly disparaged
religion. Belief in God, he insisted, was likewise a superstition.

At this point the host tried to silence him by invoking the fact that even
Einstein harbored religious beliefs. "It isn't possible!" the skeptical
guest said, turning to Einstein to ask if he was, in fact, religious. "Yes,
you can call it that," Einstein replied calmly. "Try and penetrate with our
limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the
discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible
and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can
comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious."



http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298-2,00.html


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Phil Whitmer
Received on Thu 03 Mar 2011 11:12:44 AM PST