The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136855   Message #3131406
Posted By: Musket
08-Apr-11 - 01:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: What's Up With God These Days???
Subject: RE: BS: What's Up With God These Days???
Too hot for spaghetti.

In terms of the question, "Is religion compatible with belief in God?" I might try to make a more serious contribution.

I am not religious, get rather annoyed when friends and family tell me I am a Christian as opposed to a practicing one, (debated the census, no matter,) and see myself as free from superstition and irrational thoughts. Sounds pompous?   Yeah, I suppose it does, but no more than those who convince us of a series of events / attitudes / thoughts of imaginary deities.

Whilst I am not religious, my academic past was in an area of physics so am conversant with Newtonian laws through to probability at the quantum level. So I see where Einstein was coming from when asked if he was an atheist. No, he said. For atheism must by definition reduce to chaos. the laws of physics work in every case, everywhere we look. Chaos cannot create such a state.

Makes you wonder.

Even if atrophy does preclude intelligent design after all.