Using scientists' words to support religious beliefs.

You having no faith is your choice. With every choice there are consequences. As long as you're willing to live with them by all means continue to make them.

I have no faith, and according to your religion I was created that way intentionally. So now your god would destroy me and sentence me to eternal torture because... why?
Gee thanks. I sure want to believe in this god, it seems real reasonable.

God is a Sprit. Science can only prove or disprove the natural, never, the supernatural. To believe in God, faith is needed. It is the key. The scripture itself says that without faith, it is impossible to please God, for he that believes, must believe that God is, and that He is a rewarder, of them that "diligently" seek him. (not those that do not)

It is interesting to me, that this "genius" starts out by saying that the "word of God" is "nothing more" than the expression and "product of" human weaknesses, etc., etc. Which is it? The product of human weaknesses, or, the word of God? Surely, it cannot be both, yet he begins by referring to the bible as the "word of God". Quite the contradiction! Or perhaps not. Out of the abundance of what is in the heart, the mouth speaks. A glimpse of an unspoken doubt? Maybe. I would not say, "we'll never know". I believe that one day, we will all know. Until then, we must do everything within our power to seek the truth ourselves, with an open mind, while we still have time. How sad, if those who do not believe, are wrong, and find that out, only after it is too late.

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The man did say "I want to know God's thoughts, the rest are details."

There seems to be a trend in these type of threads to confuse the concept of God with the dogma of religious institutions that it engenders.

Faith in scientific empiricism can be just as much of a dogma that disconnects us from the fundamental mystery of life.

Kickass, Science!
Time for humans to grow out of dogma.

Further reading of the Bible shows the Israelites (Jews) were no longer chosen after their continual disobedience.

"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"

These are Albert Einsteins words, not Richard Dawkins.

Here is the full passage from the article:

"Yet a recently unearthed letter should cool any further desire to conscript him as a believer. In 1954, a year before his death, Einstein wrote a letter to Jewish philosopher Eric Gutkind that was sold at auction for $404,000. It's easy to see why Richard Dawkins was a losing high-level bidder for this extraordinary document:

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. These subtilized interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything "chosen" about them.

Richard Dawkins is a very smart man. He's a witty man. He is truthful with his opinions. He's just not truthful to how close minded he is on certain subjects.