this was your post.. where you misrepresented what I wrote... setting up a strawman argument. Its a troll tactic you use on a regular basis. Your tactic manifests your lack of integrity as a person. Which is not surprising.
Q http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/einstein/ Albert Einstein Quotes on Spirituality I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details. Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. Every one 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, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. The scientists’ religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science. We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. When the solution is simple, God is answering. God does not play dice with the universe. God is subtle but he is not malicious. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. Only a life lived for others is a life worth while. The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books—-a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism. The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men. The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness. Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man. UQ
The context is perfectly clear to anyone who unlike yourself is not so angry and aggressive about their fixed religious beliefs they can't read properly. I had already made the point in clear terms, Beyond comprehension sits God of lightning. ....obviously you need that context spelt out; so it follows..... Beyond comprehension sits God of big bang. Of course what I said was totally within context. See through that red mist and your own self righteous indignation and you may start to understand what is actually being said. You're talking God of the Gaps, that's all. Apart from that, what you said is basically false. Science has not stopped at big bang. There are many science based propositions about what banged and how. Religion has. It stops dead with a pre-conclusion. What you wrote merely represents the closed mindedness of a God botherer who thinks because everything is not known in science, that in itself makes God, Creator, Higher Being or whatever, possible. Of course It doesn't.
Einstein has already said he doesn't believe in a personal God. Einstein portrays that human thinking has an emotional foundation and considers that's what the word religion means to him.
Many mathematics branches actually are based on many to-be-proven theorems. Einstein's theories could be also incomplete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel's_incompleteness_theorems . Theories of religions (as well as philosophy/etc) could be updated/improved later. All of them were developed/theorised to understand human-centric reality (as viewed from human eye/mind)! Basically every human being does have different kinds of connections/interactions with the universe that we exist. The semantics of one single terminology is not that critical in long run, all at all!
what the hell are you babbling about now. if its God in the Gap..its also Randomness in the Gap. . You really can't face the reality that we have a massively finely tuned for life universe and that and Tuner is a possible explanation. And you did set up a strawman argument about science stopping regardless of the irrelevant things you are writing now. Over 100 times I have told you a Tuner is just one of the possible explanations scientists give for our finely tuned universe. (they are possible because science does not know.... get it.) Why are you lying your ass off about what I say? Why can't you debate honestly? So instead of you lying about what I have been saying lets review what I have been saying. Here it is again... probably for the 100th time.
Q The new generation of religionists would be more about Spirituality, less Religion: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/mistic/mistic_10.htm It has become quite popular in recent years to distinguish between spirituality and religion. It’s true that there are valid distinctions between the two, but there are also a number of problematic distinctions which often and unnecessarily divide the two fields of thought. One principal problem with attempts to separate religion from spirituality is that the former is saddled with everything negative while the latter is exalted with everything positive. It is important to note the fact that many of the negative things which people attribute to religions are features of some forms of some religions (usually Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), but not of other religions (like Taoism or Buddhism). Religion is spiritual and spirituality can also be considered religious. One tends to be more personal and private while the other tends to incorporate public rituals and organized doctrines. The lines between one and the other may often not be clear or distinct depending on the interpretation. Consider these definitions: Religion is an institution established by man for various reasons. Exert control, instill morality, stroke egos, or whatever it does. Organized, structured religions all but remove god from the equation. You confess your sins to a clergy member, go to elaborate churches to worship, told what to pray and when to pray it. All those factors remove you from god. Spirituality is born in a person and develops in the person. It may be kick started by a religion, or it may be kick started by a revelation. Spirituality extends to all facets of a person’s life. Spirituality is chosen while religion is often times forced. Being spiritual to me is more important and better than being religious. True spirituality is something that is found deep within oneself. It is your way of loving, accepting and relating to the world and people around you. It cannot be found in a church or by believing in a certain way. Consider the following in favor of the spiritual path: There is not one religion, but hundreds There is only one type of spirituality Religion is for those who want to continue rituals and the formality Spirituality is for those who want to reach the Spiritual Ascent without dogmas Religion is for those who are asleep Spirituality is for those who are awake Religion is for those that require guidance from others Spirituality is for those that lend ears to their inner voice Religion has a dogmatic and unquestionable assembly of rules that need to be followed without question Spirituality invites you to reason it all, to question it all and to decide your actions and assume the consequences Religion threatens and terrifies Spirituality gives you inner peace Religion speaks of sin and of fault Spirituality encourages "living in the present" and not to feel remorse for which has already passed - Lift your spirit and learn from errors Religion represses humanity, and returns us to a false paradigm Spirituality transcends it all and makes you true to yourself Religion is instilled from childhood, like the soup you do not you want to take Spirituality is the food that you you seek, that satisfies you and is pleasant to the senses Religion is not God Spirituality is infinite consciousness and all that is - It is God Religion invents Spirituality discovers Religion does not investigate and does not question Spirituality questions everything Religion is based on humanity, an organization with rules Spirituality is DIVINE, WITHOUT rules Religion is cause for division Spirituality is cause for union Religion seeks you so that you create Spirituality causes you to seek Religion continues the teachings of a sacred book Spirituality seeks the sacredness in all the books Religion is fed fear Spirituality is fed confidence Religion lives you in your thoughts Spirituality lives in your conscience Religion is in charge of the "to do" Spirituality is in charge of the "to BE" Religion is a dialectic Spirituality is logic Religion feeds the ego Spirituality makes you transcend Religion makes you renounce yourself to the world Spirituality makes you live with God, not to renounce him Religion is adoration Spirituality is meditation Religion is to continue adapting to the psychology of a template Spirituality is individuality. Religion dreams of glory and paradise Spirituality makes you live it here and now Religion lives in the past and in the future Spirituality lives in the present, in the here and now Religion lives in the confinement of your memory Spirituality is LIBERTY in AWARENESS. Religion believes in the eternal life Spirituality makes you conscious of all that is Religion gives you promises for the after-life Spirituality gives you the light to find God in your inner self, in this life, in the present, in the here and the now… May peace, happiness and universal love continue growing in your heart. You are All That Is. UQ
Already reviewed. ..where the gap is a lack of knowledge. You put God in a same equivalency with randomness. Then again, not thinking these things through is what you do. Restricting your options to random to avoid inevitable is something you might review.
Great! ....but only one connection ever provides a practical understanding in reality to learn and discover knowledge of how the physical universe works..... science.
Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science#Philosophy_of_science Certainty and science A scientific theory is empirical,[81][92] and is always open to falsification if new evidence is presented. That is, no theory is ever considered strictly certain as science accepts the concept of fallibilism.[93] The philosopher of science Karl Popper sharply distinguishes truth from certainty. He writes that scientific knowledge "consists in the search for truth", but it "is not the search for certainty ... All human knowledge is fallible and therefore uncertain. New scientific knowledge rarely results in vast changes in our understanding. According to psychologist Keith Stanovich, it may be the media's overuse of words like "breakthrough" that leads the public to imagine that science is constantly proving everything it thought was true to be false.[45]:119–138 While there are such famous cases as the theory of relativity that required a complete reconceptualization, these are extreme exceptions. Knowledge in science is gained by a gradual synthesis of information from different experiments, by various researchers, across different branches of science; it is more like a climb than a leap.[45]:123 Theories vary in the extent to which they have been tested and verified, as well as their acceptance in the scientific community.[95] For example, heliocentric theory, the theory of evolution, relativity theory, and germ theory still bear the name "theory" even though, in practice, they are considered factual.[96] Philosopher Barry Stroud adds that, although the best definition for "knowledge" is contested, being skeptical and entertaining the possibility that one is incorrect is compatible with being correct. Ironically then, the scientist adhering to proper scientific approaches will doubt themselves even once they possess the truth.[97] The fallibilist C. S. Peirce argued that inquiry is the struggle to resolve actual doubt and that merely quarrelsome, verbal, or hyperbolic doubt is fruitless[98]—but also that the inquirer should try to attain genuine doubt rather than resting uncritically on common sense.[99] He held that the successful sciences trust, not to any single chain of inference (no stronger than its weakest link), but to the cable of multiple and various arguments intimately connected.[100] UQ