Because there's a finite amount of information, and since we as a species have an eternity to work with, we can eventually piece together absolutely everything, just like a jigsaw puzzle.
>>3
Science and math are a FUCK of a lot closer to infallibility than the alternative, which is the opinion of a largely drug-and sex-addled elder who believes in an imaginary friend.
However, your message is apt. We should not load up science and math with too much responsibility, lest we have a collapse.
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Anonymous2008-03-24 22:19
Philosophy > science and math.
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Anonymous2008-03-24 23:42
>>5
A University Physics department chair, tired of hearing non-stop requests for laboratory equipment, calls all of the department's professors into an office. He says to them, "We simply don't have enough funding for all of this expensive equipment. You need to be more like the math professors; all they need is pens, paper, and wastebaskets. Or better yet, the philosophy professors! They just need the pens and paper."
Science/math is just the breaking down of things into a simplified abstraction of reality; a model of the real world. Well actually, math doesn't even pretend to exist in the real world anymore. Scientists still arrogantly claim their models are reality though.
>>13
Einstein was using it metaphorically. He was either an atheist or a pantheist, though his pantheism was such that most religious people wouldn't recognise it as religion.
Too hard for you to understand? You're exactly as insightful as the theotards you oppose.
>>14
Einstein said that the more he discovered the secrets of the universe the more he was convinced there was an intelligence behind it all.
WHAT NOW?! CUNTS!!!
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Anonymous2008-03-26 14:48
>>16,17 "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." -- Albert Einstein
Einstein's God was Spinoza's God; that is to say, barely a god at all. He was a pantheist if anything.
>>21
Making shit up doesn't make them true, faggot. Einstein did not believe in your god.
>>22
This isn't about that, it's about his reputation, which these christfags are trying to shit all over.
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Anonymous2008-03-26 18:44
>>25
How do you know what god I believe in, or if I believe in any god, asscheese?
Are you willing to admit that Einstein believed in "A God?"
Because if you're not, you're intellectually dishonest and should be banned for life. And sodomized.
What some smart guy believed before he died in 1955 is IRRELEVANT.
What is relevant is EVIDENCE.
Cite all this evidence for the existence of this "god" or ADMIT that it doesn't exist.
Because, baby, this "god" thing looked pretty damned evidence-producing in all those stupid Bible stories. So where's a burning bush we can take video of? Oops! Where's the voice from on high we can capture on audio tape? Oops! NO FUCKING EVIDENCE, SUDDENLY?
The only logical answer is that there's NO GOD. And if you disagree, you STILL can't produce any fucking evidence. Evidence is key, and you just DON'T FUCKING HAVE ANY.
>>33
Trolled or not, my message stands. Prove the existence of this "god" or STFU as a babybrained fool.
>>36
You're talking waaaaaay over the heads of those kinds of people. They think that trolls are based upon fiction, when any rational examination of the facts would conclude that they are based upon real concerns to some degree.
In a similar fashion, all myths are based upon grains of truth. Those true items may be tiny, but they're still there. The "trolls" talking up religion are still basing their efforts upon ideas, which are still adopted by most of the populace. Too many people believe in this religious shitcrap. Troll-recognized or not, those beliefs a threat to rationality everywhere, and if Humanity is to truly advance as an intelligent civilization, we have to finally get rid of the religious stupidity.