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Date: April 09, 2022 10:51PM
dogbloggernli Wrote:
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> Divine is an adjective. God is a noun. They are
> not the same thing. Related, sure.
noun: the Divine : providence or God.
noun: Providence: God or nature as providing protective or spiritual care.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS939US939&sxsrf=APq-WBsKJrcjvHiCuDuHekA5PlsbefRNqQ:1649558280276&q=divine+providence+definition&spell=1&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=2ahUKEwjr7dO6u4j3AhUlHLkGHS35B0sQirwEKAB6BAgCEDI"I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. May I not reply with a parable? The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe. We are in the position of a little child, entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of the human mind, even the greatest and most cultured, toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged, obeying certain laws, but we understand the laws only dimly. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that sways the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's Pantheism. I admire even more his contributions to modern thought. Spinoza is the greatest of modern philosophers, because he is the first philosopher who deals with the soul and the body as one, not as two separate things.
Einstein stated, "My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem—the most important of all human problems."
On 24 April 1929, Einstein cabled Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein in German: "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all that exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." He expanded on this in answers he gave to the Japanese magazine Kaizō in 1923:
Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect. Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality and intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order. This firm belief, a belief bound up with a deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God. In common parlance this may be described as "pantheistic" (Spinoza).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_views_of_Albert_Einstein#Pantheism_and_Spinoza's_God++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I believe in Spinoza's god, Nature, but I believe Nature does play dice with the universe only on a quantum scale, all the time, only the dice are loaded, in favor of matter out of energy and energy out of matter, in favor of cosmos out of chaos, beauty out of entropy.
consciousness out of the singularity.
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