Thursday, April 24, 2008

Is There a God?

Richard Dawkins, in his novel The God Dilusion, introduces a spectrum measuring one's atheism. A one means you are certain there is a god, whereas a seven means you are certain there is no god. Dawkins considers himself to be a 6.9, because while he strongly believes there is no God, he is unable to prove it.

"A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man." --- Albert Einstein,

Einstein, on the other hand, did believe there was a God. He felt that there was no scientific explanation for how the universe could have come into existance without the help of a extraordinary super-power. Einstein was then later quoted as saying:

"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many 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 arrangements of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."

So, is there a God? I'm still researching, but I'll keep ya posted.

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