Posted by:
schrodingerscat
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Date: April 30, 2019 03:25PM
Finally Free! Wrote:
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> You are cherry picking the ones who have said
> something that you can take to mean what you want.
> These are often statements taken out of context,
> are contradicted by other statements, and/or were
> meant as metaphors. This has been pointed out to
> you many, many times. You are combining
> confirmation bias with appeals to authority.
>
> You also dismiss as "fools" all the Nobel
> Laureates who are Christian (see list at
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_No> bel_laureates), note the list contains Physicists,
> Chemists, Doctors, and more. According to you,
> they are all "fools" because they have different
> opinions than you.
>
> You also presumably dismiss as fools the list of
> Nobel Laureates who identify as atheist, agnostic,
> freethinker or otherwise nonreligious (see list at
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nonreligious> _Nobel_laureates, all with foot notes, many
> showing statements where they expressly state they
> are atheists) These are also very, very "wise"
> men, who I'd be willing to bet most of whom don't
> claim "God is Nature".
>
> My personal favorite, as it relates to your
> comment, is Erwin Schrödinger, who according to
> the footnotes, "...often called himself an
> atheist, as did Schrodinger..." and "In terms of
> religion, Schrodinger fits in the atheist
> camp..."
>
> People who have said things you agree with are
> "wise" people who don't, no matter their
> qualifications, are "fools". This why people keep
> pointing out to you that your appeals to authority
> are pointless. There are plenty of really smart
> people who have different views than you and you
> arbitrarily dismiss them, without any real
> argument to back up why, except they don't agree
> with you.
All the above completely fails to answer my question to you, what do you think Einstein was talking about when he used the word "God" if not "the laws that govern nature" ?