(January 23, 2010 at 5:44 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: If you make the assumption god = nature your word use resembles that of Einstein. But there is a big difference with most religious takes in that Einstein was horrified by the idea that god is a personal god.
We're not talking about the whole of God here, just an aspect. And this aspect is what is attacked as bad when the word 'nature' is substituted for 'God'.