Re: [asa] An anthology of quotations "50 Nobelists who believe in God"

Einstein someplace said that he believed in Spinoza's god. That is an
entity that was described as /deus sive natura/, where /sive/, or,
indicates identity under both labels. This entity is such that any mental
change, one manifestation, is also a physical change, the other
manifestation--but there is supposed to be much that is not manifested.
It is radical pantheism.
Dave

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:51:41 +0100 "Iain Strachan"
<igd.strachan@gmail.com> writes:
From the quote you gave, George, I would suppose the best description of
Einstein would be to say he was an agnostic.

Best,
Iain

On 4/30/07, George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
Having just recommended Jammer's book, it occured to me that it might be
helpful to quote from it one of Einstein's letters from 1952 which
distances him from the likes of Dawkins. It's on pp.121-122.

"The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive.
However, I am also not a 'Freethinker' in the usual sense of the word
because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively
by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar
religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of
the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we
try to formulate as 'laws of nature.' It is this consciousness and
humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality."

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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