einstein, darwin, god

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice. The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

-- Albert Einstein, the stained glass version

This is the man who also said: "Not everything that counts can be counted, And not everything that can be counted counts."

Nor did Darwin seek an antireligious ethic in nature or evolution, expressing bewilderment at deep issues as the problem of evil:

"I feel most deeply that whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.''