Jos ateismi olisi sitä mitä ateismin valhe-määritelmä väittää sen olevan, eli "ateismi on uskon puutetta jumalaan", niin silloin Einsteinin lausahduksesta "I am not an atheist" seuraa se että Einstein uskoi Jumalaan. Noh, kaikkihan tietävät että ateistien oma kotikutoinen määritelmä "ateismi on uskon puutetta" on epäaito eikä kuvaa ateistin ajatusmaailmaa.
Einstein said ("Einstein, Albert" in The Enlightened Mind, ed. Stephen Mitchell; New York: Harper Collins, 1991):
The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the source of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religion.
George F. Will, "The Mind That Changed the World" in The Washington Post, 6 January 2005; Page A19:
[Albert] Einstein's theism, such as it was, was his faith that God does not play dice with the universe -- that there are elegant, eventually discoverable laws, not randomness, at work. Saying "I'm not an atheist," he explained:
"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is."
In a letter to V. T. Aaltonen (7 May 1952), Einstein explained his opinion that belief in a personal God is better than atheism. Einstein said, "Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all." [Einstein Archive 59-059]
In a letter to Hans Muehsam (30 March 1954), Einstein said: "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever... This is a somewhat new kind of religion." [Einstein Archive 38-434]
In a letter to a child who asked if scientists pray (24 January 1936), said: "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man... In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive." [Einstein Archive 42-601]
In a letter to M. Berkowitz (25 October 1950), Einstein said: "My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment." [Einstein Archive 59-215]
In a letter to an Iowa student who asked, What is God? (July 1953), Einstein said, "To assume the existence of an unperceivable being... does not facilitate understanding the orderliness we find in the perceivable world." [Einstein Archive 59-085]
Einstein said ("Einstein, Albert" in The Enlightened Mind, ed. Stephen Mitchell; New York: Harper Collins, 1991):
The most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the source of all true science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religion.
George F. Will, "The Mind That Changed the World" in The Washington Post, 6 January 2005; Page A19:
[Albert] Einstein's theism, such as it was, was his faith that God does not play dice with the universe -- that there are elegant, eventually discoverable laws, not randomness, at work. Saying "I'm not an atheist," he explained:
"We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is."
In a letter to V. T. Aaltonen (7 May 1952), Einstein explained his opinion that belief in a personal God is better than atheism. Einstein said, "Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all." [Einstein Archive 59-059]
In a letter to Hans Muehsam (30 March 1954), Einstein said: "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever... This is a somewhat new kind of religion." [Einstein Archive 38-434]
In a letter to a child who asked if scientists pray (24 January 1936), said: "Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man... In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive." [Einstein Archive 42-601]
In a letter to M. Berkowitz (25 October 1950), Einstein said: "My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment." [Einstein Archive 59-215]
In a letter to an Iowa student who asked, What is God? (July 1953), Einstein said, "To assume the existence of an unperceivable being... does not facilitate understanding the orderliness we find in the perceivable world." [Einstein Archive 59-085]
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Vanhimmat
prässi varsinkin saksassa oli sen verran kovaa, ettei kannatttanut olla muuta kuin kansallissosialisti:
http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein
Heikosti menee sulla, jos einsteinin vedät mukaan jumalan todisteluun.
Einstein oli viisas mies. Menköön nyt hieman off topikiksi, mutta...
Kuten minunkin käytös saattoi Einsteinilla olla samanlainen. Eli jos uhkaillaan, käännytään uhkaajia vastaan, mikäli näen sen tarpeelliseksi.
Kaikki pelottelu ja uhkailu on maailman vanhimpia hallintakeinoja.
MINUN KÄYTÖSPÄS ON PIERU KAKKA
oliko Einstein ateisti, vai ei? Ei mitään! Tai on ikuisuuden kannalta, ateistinä kadotettu, uskomattona ei ateistina kadotettu, uskovana kristittynä pelastettu.
Tiesitkö muuten, että n. 500 vuotta sitten abaut 100% ihmisistä uskoi maailman olevan litteä. Täytyyhän sen olla niin, kaikki uskoivat sitä!
...Hooh.
miten einstein itse tulkitsi asioita jokin todiste jollekin? jos tuo on todiste, minä olen se satuhahmo ja joulupukki.
on sinänsä aivan sama oliko hän uskossa, uskovainen tai ateisti, panteisti, krishnalainen tai mitä ikinä olikaan. jos Tuon kuolleen ihmisen kautta lähdetään paukuttaan omaa rintaa paremmuuden ja oikeassa olemisen suhteen ollaan aika naurettavilla teillä.
Miten sinä itse tulkitset asioita? Onko se jokin todiste jollekin? Jos tuo on todiste, minä olen satutäti ja naipuolinen pukki.
Kun sinä nyt egoasi nostaaksesi lähdet taas kerran paukuttaan omaa poskeasi paremmuuden ja oikeassa olemisen suhteen olet naurettavilla teillä, kuten täällä on jo todettu.
kun joku puhuu vastoin omia käsityksiä. Mutta miksi siinä pitää nauraa, mikä naurun tuo?
Tämä on vakio aihe, joo, Einstein ei ollut ateisti, mutta sanoi uskon persoonalliseen jumalaan olevan hänestä jopa lapsellista. "Syvästi uskonnollinen uskoton" tai vastaavaa.. Eli mitä todennäköisemmin panteisti, mahtava juttu, hän ei tosiaan ollut kristitty. Panteistien ja kristittyjen jumalakäsitykset on niin erilaiset, ettei kannattaisi vetää häntä todisteeksi.(ei-persoonallinen, ihmisistä välittämätön kaikkeus-jumala) Minäkin saattaisin voida olla panteisti, mutten kristitty.