Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs

A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish."

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The idea of a all powerful being creating humans in his own image is just man's vanity in refusing to accept that we are on the same level with all life on earth.

It is arrogance to think that we are special amongst all life.

The more we understand about the universe, the more implausible any sort of "creator" becomes. Einstein knew more than most about the universe so I suspect he doubted the existence of god more than most.

Theists would have us believe Earth has been fine-tuned by god to harbour all life in the universe. On earth all life comprises about 75 km3 and the Earth is about 1 trillion km3 by volume. 1/1,000,000,000 of 1 percent of Earth is alive. Does this volume of life lead you to believe Earth has been fine-tuned by god for the purpose of supporting life?

And this is only counting Earth's volume! Theists believe that we are the only life in the whole of the Milky Way. So using that information life becomes even more insignificant. The volume between us and the nearest galaxy is 5 x 10^58 cubit kilometers! So life comprises 1/
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000 of a percent of this fine-tuned creation of god.

That is like finding 1 billion Earths, and on one of those Earths you find one atom of iron and conclude these billion Earths were formed for the purpose of harbouring iron.

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