"Albert Einstein calls God the 'universal feeling,' not the personified one, who is accountable for racial, narrow-mindedness and genocidial crimes.”
First of all I would like to thank a facebook friend for sharing the above quote.
My take on this view is as follows. It however depends on the agreement on the definition of "scientific fact" and taking evolution as a scientific fact (and theory).
Scientific fact as a fact perceived by the five senses of the human body, and things whose variable properties are measured differentially with respect to a chosen characterising and preselected defining variable with high throughput and reproducibility regalrdelss of the observer in different places and at different times is a scientific fact. In this regard evolution is a scientifc theory that bases on scientific fact. Accordingly, every object is a spec of dust, where in time after the great bang a form of exsitence of a collection of dust gave rise to what is called "living things" with certain characteristic properties. Over the ages, they reproduced, multiplied and gave varieties up to homosapiens of us. Though not clear yet where and how the first biochemical stuff started and how and why it started, the general 'scientific' consensus is that information encoded in the great biochemical stuff called RNA or DNA is passed on to generations along the way to this date. A slight difference in the encoded information, and the environmental stress lead to expression of one specific set over the other or otherwise leads to extincition. This has given rise to the "formation" of different varieties of "living things". It happens in such a long time that it is called evolution, and not revolution. In this regard we humans are also product of evolution - evolved from a primitive species in relation to coping up the external environmental forces.
That being said, I think that being racist and narrow-mindedness are purely evolutionary - a way of self-defending to surviving and being eternal by passing on our genetic information. Well, if not completely true that is what the current scientific evidence seems indicating. In this strange and enormously unknown world (whereby we live our days in probability), there is a great sense of fear of self-extinction that we have to fight hard to live and that in turn also leads to killing other fellow humans (an element of genocidal crimes).
Then, either we misunderstood God or there is no such thing called God but is only the product of the human thought - a way of expressing the fear of losing life, is only mere reason to be considered as a factor for those inhumane qualities. There are a number of state-waged war cases whose causes are religion (or at least scriptural). Saying my God is the one and only God, or at least saying "mine is better than yours" and fighting for this to death is no different from fighting to protect the throne of a king; I mean that God is no worth of worshiping as s/he is not self-defending by his/her own mighty.
I also don't agree with the definition/calling "universal feeling." How come we give a thing universality while our definitions or callings are based on our understanding, which is dynamic itself? If we say it is a feeling that every human of all the time shall feel and have the access to feel (so to call universal) is simply denying evolution.
As a final out to my talk, this peice is not to show that evolution is true, and no religion is valid. It rather is to argue that it is not the personified God that is a cause to all inhumane deeds, and as to Eisntein, who I think is a high profile scietist who accepts evolution as a solid and solid fact, saying God as a "universal feeling" is simply self-refuting the very idea of evolution where the conclusion of "no peronifed God" is based. In evolution there shall exist no universality; everything is dyanamic and relative. Maybe time is eternal, and it would be if time itself is for real.
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