Comments on: I’m A Six On The Dawkins Scale http://christophersisk.com/2008/05/13/im-a-six-on-the-dawkins-scale/ Be Excellent To Each Other Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:33:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jon Shurtleff http://christophersisk.com/2008/05/13/im-a-six-on-the-dawkins-scale/comment-page-1/#comment-861 Jon Shurtleff Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:30:49 +0000 http://christophersisk.com/?p=213#comment-861 What evidence would you require to convince you that there is a god? What evidence would you require to convince you that there is a god?

]]> By: Christopher Sisk http://christophersisk.com/2008/05/13/im-a-six-on-the-dawkins-scale/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Christopher Sisk Sat, 17 May 2008 03:14:06 +0000 http://christophersisk.com/?p=213#comment-274 If you consider the most <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/12/peopleinscience.religion" rel="nofollow">recently auctioned letter</a> written by him, I'd say it's safe to put him in category 6. <blockquote>The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.</blockquote> Einstein has always been a confusing area when it came to the question of his belief in a god. He used the term 'god' occasionally but more to express the sense of awe and wonder that filled him when he considered the nature of the universe than belief in a supernatural or personal entity. <blockquote>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 unbounding admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. - Albert Einstein</blockquote> In the purest definition of th word, Einstein was an atheist. If you consider the most recently auctioned letter written by him, I’d say it’s safe to put him in category 6.

The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.

Einstein has always been a confusing area when it came to the question of his belief in a god. He used the term ‘god’ occasionally but more to express the sense of awe and wonder that filled him when he considered the nature of the universe than belief in a supernatural or personal entity.

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 unbounding admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. – Albert Einstein

In the purest definition of th word, Einstein was an atheist.

]]> By: Ian Sapeli http://christophersisk.com/2008/05/13/im-a-six-on-the-dawkins-scale/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Ian Sapeli Sat, 17 May 2008 02:45:44 +0000 http://christophersisk.com/?p=213#comment-273 I am having this debate with my friends. Where do you see Einstein on this scale? I consider him a 3 or 4. I am having this debate with my friends. Where do you see Einstein on this scale? I consider him a 3 or 4.

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