On 28 January 2014 06:07, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > On 27 Jan 2014, at 17:18, John Clark wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: > > > John should read the book by Jammer on Einstein's religion. 2/3 of that >> book is really informative about Einstein's religion. >> > > Rather than read what Jammer had to say try reading what Einstein himself > had to say about God: > > "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." > > This makes my point. Einstein illustrates that you can believe in a non > personal God. >
After all my lessons in logic, I feel duty bound to point out that Einstein only said that he didn't believe in a personal God. From that, one cannot deduce that he thought you *can *believe in a non-personal God (or god, if you prefer). (I would try to formalise this, something like ~p -> q =/= p -> ~q but my expertise in meta-self-doubt assures me I'd probably mess it up.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
