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Einstein: Cosmic Religious Sense:
"Margaret Mead said recently that god is rarely mentioned at scientific or social conferences. This is not so much a phenomenon of conferences as it is characteristic of our times. Many think of science and the age of industrialization as atheistic. Scientists frequently have been asked by less educated men whether anything they observe through their microscopes or telescopes confirms religious dogma and the scriptures-- and, if not, must they not forsake scripture and religion as having no fundamental significance whatsoever? Surprised by the question and unconvinced that they are atheists, the scientific specialists, also avoiding philosophic speculation as treacherous ground for reasoning, have been notably ineffective in refuting their atheistic status.
“Cosmology and philosophy have been differentially dissipated in the era of increased specialization. Total thinking is now almost completely legendary or speculative. For instance, it is a popular conception that the Universe must have been begun in chaos, out of which it has happened from time to time that probability, reversing its law of increase of the random element, has surprisingly accumulated increasing order. It seems that this illogical increase of order accredited by the”
