--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't these quotes suggest that Einstein would have > supported the modern notion of intelligent design > and considered "most so-called atheists" to be >ignorant and utterly arrogant. >
Almost all scientists, religious as well as non-religious, regard the latest version of creationism, dubbed intelligent design, as entirely unscientific. Here is a nice YouTube video of a lecture by Kenneth Miller, a well-known biologist and a practicing Catholic, explaining why intelligent design is not science to a general audience. As far as Einstein is concerned, he did not believe in supernatural causation nor in divine interference in natural processes. Here is one of his quotes that speaks to this point: "The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events. To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with the natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot. But I am persuaded that such behaviour on the part of the representatives of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress..." .....A. Einstein In the above quote, Einstein also reveals why supernatural interference is not falsifiable, and is therefore unscientific. Cheers, Santosh