On 28 January 2014 06:07, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 Jan 2014, at 17:18, John Clark wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
