On 27 Jan 2014, at 21:48, meekerdb wrote:
On 1/27/2014 9:07 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
"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.
No. That Einstein does not believe in a personal god does not
entail that he does believe in an impersonal god.
Of course.
But Einstein has heavily insisted all his life that he does believe in
the good Lord. The quote given by John Clark comes from Einstein
insisting that he does not believe in a personal God, that he made
when people misused his assertion of his belief in God.
(Einstein is of course a bit sloppy when describing his non personal
god as a good Lord, but that's just a poetical means, like Plotinus
calling the ONE "father": it was just a way to attract Christians to
Neoplatonism).
That's a pretty sloppy inference for a logician, and you do it twice
more.
Read Jammer's book if you have any doubt that Einstein was not a
believer in God (yet not in a personal or institutionalized God).
Einstein will reassessed that belief all his life. But he will also
condemn all religious institutions, all his life.
Unlike Gödel, Einstein will not be interested in digging on this with
the scientfic method, but thanks to Gödel, Einstein will eventually be
open to the possibility that physics might not be the fundamental
science, and that math could be. This is something that I have
discovered recently. Einstein did understood a little bit what Gödel
tried to explain to him, after all.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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