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He acknowledged that he believed in Spinoza's god, which is essentially that the universe itself is god. When told that others claimed that he believed in the Judeo/Christian god, he responded "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

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Did Albert Einstein Believe in God?

I heard this was true. Also, did he give any scientific explanation or insight into why he believed God was real? Also, he was around after evolution became popular, correct?

σрзи φоυя dооя♥, Please check your information before posting in the future to avoid spreading urban legends.

It's really quite simple to go to snopes.com and I am sure you wouldn't want to be responsible for spreading a falsehood.

http://www.snopes.com/religion/einstein.asp

"Albert Einstein did write a book titled God vs Science in 1921"

Again , verify before repeating something you have heard as fact. Einstein wrote no such book, although this title is mentioned in all the chain emails and blogs repeating the urban legend.

Einstein was a pantheist at best. He most certainly did not believe in the Biblical God.

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

-- Albert Einstein

What this has to do with evolution (which the Catholic Church and many Christians accept) I do not know.

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." -- Albert Einstein, 1954, from Albert Einstein: The Human Side "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." -- Albert Einstein, following his wife's advice in responding to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein of the International Synagogue in New York, who had sent Einstein a cablegram bluntly demanding "Do you believe in God?" Quoted from and citation notes derived from Victor J Stenger, Has Science Found God? (draft: 2001), chapter 3.

Open your door :- interesting. Especially as I use this argument of the professor alot. I would point out that any measure of Evil you can imagine, I could make even more Evil. Inaction is the 0 point much like a number line

< negative -------------------- 0 -------------------------- positive >

Mathematics does not really have a begining or an end however it is a human philisophical construct used to measure things.

The above number line could just as easily be.

< Evil ------------------------- Inaction ---------------------- Good >

Now that we can accept that Evil is NOT the absense of good but an action onto itself we must accept that Evil exists. This links closely to the professors original argument.

If Evil exists and God created all things then God is responsible for evil.

The premise that Evil does not exist is flawed, therefore the conclusion was also flawed.

I do appreciate an intellectual argument on the subject though ;-)

OOOPS nearly forgot. Animal husbandry is the human directed evolution of domestic animals. We would be unable to make cows more dosile and meatier if the process of Evolution did not exist. Evolution has been witnessed and harnessed.

Class Dismissed.

Not anything the way a Christian would mean it. He was basically a pantheist, which means he considered the universe to be god.

In fact, he referred to Jewish and Christian beliefs as "childish" in this letter: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080513/world/britai...

Evolution had been around for about a hundred years at that point, and pretty much universally accepted by scientists for over 50 years.

Added: that long quote above is a very well known urban legend. If they need to lie to make a point you can be sure it is because they don't have one. Look it up on Snopes.com. It's there.

That is up in the air. Albert Einstein has been quoted as saying both "God does not play dice" and that he "stopped believing in God after he opened a science textbook". I supposed it depends on how you personally define God (but isn't that always the case?)

What is for certain, he believed that the universe had order, but was not, in the least, a religious person.

And no, he was not around after evolution became popular. Evolution is the very basis of modern Biology, he sort of existed concurrently as it rose in popularity and scientific acceptance.

"God is cunning but He is not malicious."(Also: "God is subtle but he is not bloody-minded." Or: "God is slick, but he ain't mean." (1946)

His words

Edit::: Holy $h*t, There is an answer for this question that could possibly win the guinness book world record for yahoo answers longest answer lol.

Edit2:: I didnt want to post this because I'm pretty sure by now Einstein would not say this, but.

"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings"

There was what einstein thought about God at one time.

Einstein believed in God the same way the Pope believes in the Big Bang.

But seriously, what does it matter what he thought? He's way overrated. The point is that the vast majority of scientists and intellectuals are atheistic or agnostic.