Critical Thoughts

This is an interesting news article that I came across:

From the grave, Albert Einstein poured gasoline on the culture wars between science and religion this week.

A letter the physicist wrote in 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, in which he described the Bible as “pretty childish” and scoffed at the notion that the Jews could be a “chosen people,” sold for $404,000 at an auction in London. That was 25 times the presale estimate.

No, I am not interested in the letter. I am more interested in what this brilliant man has to say about God. Unfortunately he never knew about Islam, had he known about it he would have become a Muslim I am sure. Because while the Bible may be viewed as a fictional historical piece of writing with little or no spiritual value, the Qur’an is in toto God’s Revelation verbatim. No one has thus far made any real challenge to deny that either.

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Not a science fiction joke, to be sure:

Experiments to create Britain’s first embryos that combine human and animal material will begin within months after a government watchdog gave its approval yesterday to two research teams to carry out the controversial work.

Scientists at King’s College London, and the University of Newcastle will inject human DNA into empty eggs from cows to create embryos known as cytoplasmic hybrids, which are 99.9 per cent human in genetic terms.

The things people do in the name of “science” these days are very disturbing. But this is what happens when there is no religious moral compass to guide your “research” and human greed surpasses religion and reason.