"Einstein wrote: "The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. It was the experience of mystery-even if mixed with fear- that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which are only accessible to our reason in their most elementary forms -it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man" (p. 397). But on the question "Do you believe in God?", Einstein answered: "I cannot conceive a personal God that has direct influence in the actions of the individuals or that judges the creatures of his own creation. My religiousness consists in the humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in what little we manage to understand about the world which can be known. This deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a rational superior power that reveals itself in this incomprehensible universe is my idea of God" (p. 398). In other occasions, the author of the theory of relativity described his concept of God: "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists; not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings" (p. 399). Dawkins quotes this last phrase and relativizes Einstein's most religious declarations saying that "Einstein used 'God' in a purely metaphoric, poetic sense" (Deus - um delírio, p. 433).

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Quanto mais penso nesse assunto, mas me aproximo da ideia de que "Deus" é o conceito que reune o que ainda não sabemos, o que não entendemos e o que não poderemos saber logo entender, nunca. É certo que frente ao vazio da morte, a maioria se apega a esse conceito para não entrar em desespero. Dizem que até Voltaire no leito de morte se rendeu a "Deus"... Não digo dessa água não beberei, mas por agora fico por ai, preferindo ampliar a fronteira do conhecimento ao invés de reverenciar meus limites.

Abração

Ebert

Muitos, além de Voltaire, no leito de morte mudaram de perspectiva. No texto, mais de uma vez Einstein alude a Deus como 'uma convicção emocional'...

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