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- From: matt@physics3.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Religion & Physics Don't Mix
- Date: 10 Nov 92 12:41:25
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- In-reply-to: lnh@soliton.physics.arizona.edu's message of 8 Nov 92 16:04:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.160429.14488@galileo.physics.arizona.edu> lnh@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (sometimes a Wombat) writes:
-
- > gene@aee.aee.com (Gene Kochanowsky) writes:
- > > If there is any complete nonsense here, it is that a person can be truely
- > > religious and scientific in his religion at the same time. It is absurd,
- > > illogical and speaks volumes of misunderstanding on the part of that
- > > person of what is the basis of both science and religion.
- >
- > Tell that to Einstein.
-
- I don't know whether or not it is correct to say that Einstein was a
- religious man, but he certainly was not religious in a conventional
- sense.
-
- Einstein once said that his religious beliefs were similar to those of
- the philosopher Spinoza. Just as a reminder, Spinoza was shunned by
- the Jewish community of his city because they thought he was an
- atheist. (I don't think that they were right, but it is quite clear
- from even a cursory examination that Spinoza's beliefs had almost
- nothing to do with anything that is normally regarded as Jewish.)
-
- People are sometimes misled by a few aphorisms of Einstein's into
- thinking that he was conventionally devout. He wasn't.
- --
- Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a
- (510) 644-2618 crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
- austern@lbl.bitnet faction, an army! If you don't have any
- matt@physics.berkeley.edu solutions, become a part of the problem!
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