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Originally Posted by toretorden
The main point of my last post is that creationists often use such quotes in a misleading manner. If you're gonna quote Einstein, you might as well use the quote that said "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this".
When you remove a quote from it's context, it quickly becomes misleading. One of the most infamous examples is this :
Maybe scientists should stoop as low as the creationists. We could make up quotes from Jesus saying God doesn't really exist or support science by posting quotes from people who used to be creationists but now believe in evolution. Wait, that would be stupid.
The sad thing about tactics that rely on misinformation is that you're then competing with the truth .. and the truth stays true in the face of evidence while lies do not.
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well put and very true. My fiancee mentioned the Einstein quote to me the other night while we were both discussing our spiritual journeys over the last 10 years. So I dug it up without really researching it and posted it here to see the responses I would get. I did a bit more research on it after you brought it to my attention how it was taken out of context and I find more comfort in how Einstein viewed religion and science over how I was taught it. I can't accept the world just exists because, it's too perfect and complex of a rejuvenating system to have just accidentally happened. I also can't accept humans are here to be tested and a better world is waiting for them only if they pass that test. So I'm somewhere in the middle I guess, a higher power... sure, a judging power... not likely. As far as where we go after we die, I tend to think about where we were before we were born... that's most likely where we will go.