You say that "man must volunteer his cooperation unequivocally". Do you mean MUST as in "has no choice", or as in "in voluntary order to understand"? I fully agree that it is a very bad thing to force one's will upon others, and "truth" should not be a forced belief.
Creationism as professed by the Christian Bible has certainly been shot down by carbon dating and DNA, but you do know that bigjon is going to counter with "who says the supreme being created the world in 7 days" (or whatever it is), or he may even once again counter with "maybe the supreme being is tweaking carbon dating results just to fuck with us for fun". Dude, don't even try to argue with guys logically. I just gave up. You aren't going to get anywhere.
Jayford, I know he might try and counter with that... But then he will be renouncing the religious texts - and what is left then? I studied a lot of logic and model theory at university, and also enjoy strategic games like Shogi - I even was one of the founding members of the first Shogi association in my home country.
There is no rational evidence for the existence of 'god' as envisioned by any organized religion. The believer is not able to dispute this without invoking superstition or the supernatural. Atheists reject superstition and the supernatural as irrational. Einstein's seemingly irrational views on religion may demonstrate that even a very brilliant mind such as his has its limits. We will never be certain, without knowing his personal definition of 'god'. To the atheist, a belief in god is just as absurd as the rejection of the existence of god is to the religious.
That is MY POINT! You wont get anywhere! Thats the frikin point I have been trying to make in this thread.
Your "since man and ape share 95% genetic material, god didnt create man -- Do you see how dumb that is?" is not complete. Because evolution already proves that there is evolutionary progress - as a true fact - and this is completely in line with the shared DNA of humans to other species... that proves that we are in fact evolved with common ancestors of other primates. However your "Maybe god just likes apes so he created to creatures that are alike. This PROVES NOTHING." -- now THAT is truly uncomprehendingly stupid. Creationism as taught in the religious texts has been disproved by sciences. That you say "maybe he already created history into everything at an instant" - now that is just contradictory to what the religious texts all say. So which is it - are the religious texts right or wrong?
From the little I know about him, I don't think Einstein was irrational in any way. Rather, he was either misquoted a lot or some of what he had said and written was misinterpreted, either innocently or otherwise. Einstein was not a theist. He was a pantheist who, in his wonderment, essentially referred to nature as god. It was a poetic reference rather than a literal one. He had disputed his alleged belief in a personal god.
I will show you over and over again that reasoning and thinking will get me anywhere within reality and saneness.
Albert Einstein was agnostic and yes, maybe a pantheist. He was also a Zionist and had a political agenda concerning Jews and Israel. That cannot be left out of the picture when considering Einstein and religion. A lot of intelligent people have absolutely no skills in other areas. That is the difference of "only intelligence" versus the skill of reasoning and thinking. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking