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A few days left to check this film out...
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RE: A few days left to check this film out...
Einstein was a Pantheist, meaning that he considered nature itself as God. This is nothing to do with the gods of religion and is always a problem when theists use Einstein as an example of someone who believed in God.

As for finding evidence of God in the language of mathematics, well, it depends who's god you are talking about. Einsteins? Yes, as as far as he was concerned, the Cosmos is God. Not a conscious, intervening god but reality itself.

If you are talking about the god of the bible then no. How could anything mathematical support or backup this character?

I think what you are looking for is an ultimate and deliberate reason for everything being here. A single conscious point from which everything else emanates. Maybe a decision made by some unimaginable entity to create the Universe.

It's true that the more you look into the way reality works, the more complex it seems to get. It follows strict and confusing rules that somehow all seem to work together to 'create' the world around us.

For example, if the value for the strong nuclear force were a little different then atoms would not be able to hold themselves together and the Universe would just be a cloud of sub atomic particles. And what about gravity? If it were weaker than it actually is then stars could not form so, no galaxies or planets etc.

Many people use examples like this to point to the fact that there must be a creator who tuned everything so perfectly as to allow our existence. However, the very fact that we are here to ask these questions means that we must live in a Universe that 'works'. For all we know for each Universe like this there may well be billions that have 'failed', or perhaps others that support far superior forms of life and would consider a reality like this with its chaotic laws of physics as ridiculous.

Anyway, back to Einstein. He didn't consider that there was something more than nature in nature. To him, nature was everything and sometimes he also called it God.
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A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 4, 2008 at 6:18 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by leo-rcc - December 4, 2008 at 6:39 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 5, 2008 at 3:10 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 4, 2008 at 6:45 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by leo-rcc - December 4, 2008 at 6:51 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Tiberius - December 4, 2008 at 10:35 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 5, 2008 at 2:06 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 5, 2008 at 4:37 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Tiberius - December 5, 2008 at 2:29 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Tiberius - December 5, 2008 at 4:39 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 6, 2008 at 3:44 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 6, 2008 at 3:49 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 6, 2008 at 3:56 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 6, 2008 at 5:45 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 6, 2008 at 6:07 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 6, 2008 at 6:25 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 6, 2008 at 6:40 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 6, 2008 at 6:54 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 6, 2008 at 7:18 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 6, 2008 at 7:35 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 6, 2008 at 7:49 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 10, 2008 at 4:31 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 11, 2008 at 11:20 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Edwardo Piet - December 11, 2008 at 11:26 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 11, 2008 at 11:29 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 11, 2008 at 12:14 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 11, 2008 at 1:55 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Dotard - December 14, 2008 at 12:36 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 14, 2008 at 3:50 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Rob - December 14, 2008 at 6:24 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Rob - December 16, 2008 at 11:06 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Tiberius - December 16, 2008 at 1:56 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 16, 2008 at 2:03 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by LukeMC - December 17, 2008 at 4:55 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 17, 2008 at 5:02 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Tiberius - December 17, 2008 at 4:57 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by LukeMC - December 17, 2008 at 5:04 pm
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 18, 2008 at 5:59 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 18, 2008 at 6:06 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 18, 2008 at 9:33 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by allan175 - December 18, 2008 at 10:06 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Tiberius - December 18, 2008 at 6:16 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 18, 2008 at 9:55 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by CoxRox - December 18, 2008 at 10:04 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Darwinian - December 18, 2008 at 9:57 am
RE: A few days left to check this film out... - by Edwardo Piet - December 18, 2008 at 10:09 am

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