Indeed, it is your opinion. Your opinion (or "claim") is false.
No its not.
Indeed, it is your opinion. Your opinion (or "claim") is false.
No its not.
"If there is only one possible unified theory - that is just a set of rules and equations - what is it that breathes fire into those equations and creates a universe for them to describe? Why does a universe go to all of the bother of existing? Is a unified theory so compelling that it brings about its own existence, or does it need a creator?" - Stephen Hawking
"God does not play dice." - Einstein
"“The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.†- Nikola Tesla
Three men who arguably understood the material world better than any other individuals in history, and they still didn't see it necessary to adopt a short-sighted, secular, materialist world view. They understood that the universe is more than a mechanical dance of atoms.
Beautiful words are not necessarily true ones, that's why it's called the *ART* of rhetoric. Keep speaking the truth, Lark.
Did you even read - not skim - the quote by Stephen Hawking? Do you understand the context in which Einstein made that statement? No, to both. Take your appeal to authority and go sit facing the wall, boy.
This is what Einstein thought about god according to himself - "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 different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement 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."
—Albert Einstein
[...] you are discussing belief systems that cannot be proven or even quantified...
I do, in fact, ever heard of blind faith?
I do, in fact, ever heard of blind faith?
Yes, but you were clearly using the quotes as some kind of argument against atheism.
Yes, but you were clearly using the quotes as some kind of argument against atheism.
The very nicest thing about the conversation between atheists and theists is that it is the never-ending-conversation.
The conversation can never be resolved and so our conversation will never come to an end.
The internet provides us with the means for the never-ending-conversation, and atheism versus theism provide us with the excuse.
So atheism versus theism gives us a little taste of immortality.