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Dave in Tenn:
"Many quotes attributed to me were actually not said or written by me."

Albert Einstein.

 ;D

Oatmeal:
That quote that I posted from Einstein came from a book that he wrote, or from a book that someone else wrote and which book was attributed to him.  But anyway, it's in the book, that is, in a pdf version that I downloaded from the Internet.

I thought that some might find it interesting that Einstein was intelligent enough to conclude that the idea-of-mans'-free-will and the omnipotence of God are contradictions.

I don't think school marks are a definitive way of determining intelligence.  There are other things that can affect marks, such as lack of interest, mind on other things, trauma, etc.

The Einstein quote that I used fits in with, I think, the subject matter area of this forum.

In regard to the post by Indiana Bob, in regard to Relativity, the following quote gives some hint as to why Relativity was so strongly promulgated, and which quote ties in with recent WMAP data:

Since the time of Copernicus we have known that the earth rotates on its axis and moves around the sun. Even this simple idea, so clear to everyone, was not left untouched by the advance of science. But let us leave this question for the time being and accept Copernicus' point of view.
-   Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld, The Evolution of Physics, originally published in 1938, page 161 of a pdf version downloaded from the Internet

I heard someone say that we have free will, but God knows what we will choose.  I'm wondering if, putting aside Scripture, such an argument could be argued logically.  And that may mean that I am not as intelligent as Einstein, but I ask the question anyway.

Oatmeal

lareli:

--- Quote from: Dave in Tenn on June 04, 2015, 06:03:40 PM ---"Many quotes attributed to me were actually not said or written by me."

Albert Einstein.

 ;D

--- End quote ---

Ha! That doesn't surprise me at all... Did you also know that 90% of statistics are actually made up?

lareli:
Oatmeal

"I heard someone say that we have free will, but God knows what we will choose.  I'm wondering if, putting aside Scripture, such an argument could be argued logically.  And that may mean that I am not as intelligent as Einstein, but I ask the question anyway."

If we have free will but God knows what we will choose than God is only psychic and plans accordingly. He would not be omnipotent. He would know future events but He would not be in control of us.. Right?

John from Kentucky:
Einstein is dead, Fred.  He sleeps with the fishes.

All of his supposed intelligence can't save him now.  He is relative to dust.

The "great man" did not believe in a personal God.  Yet it will be a personal God Who will resurrect him back to life.

He was a big dummy.  All of his supposed intelligence did not give him knowledge of the true God.

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