Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] predicting the future

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 1 May 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> I did a google on "Einstein God" and came up with this:
>
> http://www.ctinquiry.org/publications/reflections_volume_1/torrance.htm
>
> Heck, it even mentions Spinoza (in my original message I said that 
> Einstein believed in Spinoza's God).  I even found this quote from 
> Einstein on another web site:
>
> I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of 
> what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of 
> human beings.
>
> While it is without doubt that Einstein rejected any notion of God as I 
> understand him, nevertheless it is also clear that Einstein had a 
> religiousity that you, Mike, don't have at all.

He had a sense of wonder at the universe and that's what I think he was 
referring to when ever he seemed to imply a belief in some sort of 
God-like entity.


> If you read these quotes:
> http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/quotes_einstein.html
> it becomes very clear that Einstein didn't do or say *anything* because of 
> peer pressure.

Interesting - the very first human being for whom all the findings of 
social psychology do not apply.

Mike

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