You're such a sweetheart, chris! Haha, man, talk about acting like a desperate caged animal, clawing at everything he can! Hell, what am I saying, animals act more civilized. Do you think Jesus would be proud of the way you're acting? You're a stellar representative of your religion :thumbsup:


Quote Originally Posted by chris62008
EINSTEIN SAID WHAT HE SAID!!!!!!! QUIT TRYING TO TWIST AND TURN HIS WORDS AROUND SO YOU CAN TRY AND HAVE SOMETHING TO SUPPORT YOUR NO ANSWER THEORY!!!!!!!!!
It's really sad that I have to state the obvious, but this sentence of yours is one of the most hypocritical statements I've ever heard. That is precicely what you are doing, hon. Not anyone else.

Since we are unfamiliar with the term "figuratively speaking" I'll be more than happy to spell it out. Here's one definition - "Represented by a figure or resemblance; symbolic or emblematic" You've never heard of speaking hypothetically? Sometimes, when people need to get a point across, they need to speak in terms other people can understand and relate to. That's what he was doing. You don't like my previous analogy? That's fine. Here's another one - If I said to you "you're living proof that god has a sense of humor", you think that means I believe in god as you believe it to be? It doesn't.

If your out-of-context quotes were the only thing that Albert said, it would have been a possibility that he believed what you say he does. Since you haven't been able to counter my statements about you not having the correct answer to the creation of the universe, you obviously accept that....finally. You keep asking others to address the quote you found even though it has already been done so repeatedly, but you still haven't answered my question though. What is your explanation of these following quotes that BB provided? -

"I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature. (Albert Einstein, The World as I See It)"

"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, 1954, The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press)"

These my friend, are plain and simple statements from the man himself. Not a whole lot open for interpretation. Please don't avoid the question, chris. I'd really like to know what those 2 statements mean to you.