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Date: April 27, 2020 12:04PM
Lot's Wife Wrote:
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> > . . .Hawking's, "god" (little 'g')
> > which is Einstein's god, and Spinozas,
> Buddha/Lao
> > Tzu', Nature.
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> Off the rails again.
Hawking's, "god" -
"When I use the word, "god", I mean it in thee same way Einstein used it, in the impersonal sense of the word, to mean, the laws that govern nature, as in, 'I want to know the mind of god.' So to know the mind of god is to know the laws that govern nature." Stephen Hawking, Is There A God?, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Einstein's "god"
"Einstein stated that he believed in the pantheistic God of Baruch Spinoza. He did not believe in a personal God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings, a view which he described as naïve."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_views_of_Albert_EinsteinMichio Kaku on Einstein's god,
https://bigthink.com/robby-berman/michio-kaku-believes-in-god-if-not-that-god"In any event, when asked about God, Kaku is likely to quote Einstein’s suggestion that there are two types of god: “One god is a personal god, the god that you pray to, the god that smites the Philistines, the god that walks on water. That’s the first god. But there’s another god, and that’s the god of Spinoza. That’s the god of beauty, harmony, simplicity.”
Like I said, it depends upon how you define the word, 'god'.
I choose to go with the working definition of the cosmologists and string theorists, as in, nature, or the way of nature, which is the same as Tao.
How you define it is up to you.