Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheese
"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."
- Albert Einstein
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"The more I study science, the more I believe in God"
- Albert Einstein
maybe that's the quote he's refering too? kind of confusing, but the impression I get (from both quotes) is that he believes in a higher power. this belief stems from the obstervation that the universe posseses remarkable order and structure in almost every area of science. so he thinks someone was behind it and that it wasn't by chance, maybe?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheese
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter."
- Thomas Jefferson
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all respectable historians do not deny the existance of Jesus (ie. he was not a "mystical generation"). whether you like it or not, all reliable evidence suggests that he was a real person. he is mentioned in many historical documents, secular and religious. the question is, was he the God, was he crazy, or was he just a good moral teacher?
I've always thought that "Agnostics" believed that you
can't prove without a doubt that a God does exist and you can't prove one doesn't exist either, so there's no way of knowing. "Atheists" believe there
is no God. "Theists" believe there
is a God. So if you can't prove if God exists or if he doesn't exist (this is true, right?), then does't it take faith to believe in Theism
and Atheism?