Mutual Influence of the Metaphysical and Physical

By: Ziauddin Ahmed

Family of the Heart - DIALOGUE & DISCUSSIONS 

Dear Rashid,

 

I received your message by post # 68. By reproducing the post # 63, you are reminding me that I have not responded to the first paragraph of the post # 63 in my reply (post # 64). This fist paragraph contains:

 

“Einstein concluded, based on reason, …, So what other proof does one need?”

 

I did not find any proof for His existence that Einstein ever concluded!

 

As for his belief in God the situation is:

 

“I am not a family man. I want my peace. I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.”

 

“I believe in Spinoza’s God, who reveals himself in the harmony of all being, not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and actions of men.”

 

“God who is the universe and manifests Himself within it, rather than an intelligent mind that created the universe and whose brilliance could be deduced by the intricacies and the laws found therein as Einstein appears to imply.”

 

“A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity; in this sense and in this sense alone, I am a deeply religious man.”

 

“In spite of his great admiration for the ethical principles found in the Bible, to the end of his days Einstein rejected the view of a “personal God” in the Judeo-Christian tradition and continued to embrace the view of that God is a creative mind that manifests Itself in the wonders of nature. There was no change in this view as he approached his sunset years, and he died holding on to it to the very end.”  http://michaelcaputo.tripod.com/einsteinandgod/

 

The great man died with his Belief in an impersonal God without ever giving any proof of His existence. Any Proof attributed to him by Feroz Karmally is an extrapolation of Einstein’s claim that God does not “Play Dice”.

 

Is He Playing Dice?

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Ahsan

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