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Einstein was not an atheist, though they try to say he was.

"In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human understanding, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such view"---Albert Einstein

"here lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that --weakened by age--I have fallen prey to the clergy"--Albert Einstein in a personal letter to a friend.

"I was barked at by numerous dogs who are earning their food guarding ignorance and superstition for the benefit of those who profit from it. Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source. They are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who—in their grudge against the traditional "opium of the people"—cannot bear the music of the spheres. The Wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims"---Albert Einstein in a speech in August 1941

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"--Albert Einstein

I would suggest you study what Albert Einstein really thought of religion and what the thought of G-d. He was Jewish but did not practice his faith (except for a very brief period in his early teens). He believed in G-d and fit the concept of G-d into his idea of the cosmos. He put an element of a "higher power" into his science. He was a pantheist, if you will.

He did not believe in G-d the same way a Christian, Jew, Muslim etc does but he also did not waste his time going around knocking people who did. He had better things to do.

The study of Einstein is fascinating and his believes on religion/G-d are very compelling.

Long shot! Guess I'll try even if I'm not Einstein.

Well, first: atheists aren't smart enough not figure out the limitations of their human mind. While every rational being could not deny the existence of God, atheist stop rationalizing when they saw nothing by their minds but matter in their gross to ethereal forms. Mere existence of matter proves the existence of the First Source from whom the material universe exist. And the principles of material inter-actions, or laws of physics, proves even more! So much more if animal and human consciousness will be considered.

Well, to answer your question (after a long premise), Einstein had gone far beyond mere atheism. He used his reason; not his imagination. There is a reason to believe that there is God; there is imagination to believe that there is none. Reason is for philosophers; imagination is for artists.

Another thing: Einstein might have failed to tell us that he believe in God because of a very personal experience. And that's exclusive. I cannot reason it out. Well, he might deliberately did it on purpose -- that you got to have your own very exclusive experience to believe that God exist.

Lastly, one need not be an Einstein to arrive at believing in the existence of God. And, at this point, atheists are minority. That proves that there are still many who are using reason that mere imagination.

Wow, I think that's at least 2 trite arguments from you in the past hour! What's next, Pascal's Wager? First Cause?

>>Why did Einstein believe in GOD?

The real question is: why do religionists keep falsely insisting that he did, when he said this over 50 years ago:

"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."

His use of the phrase "God does not play dice with the universe" had nothing to do with God. He was expressing his refusal to accept some aspects of the most popular interpretations of quantum theory.

Why do you zealots bring up the Einstein argument anyway? Are you saying we should believe things because they were endorsed by a celebrity?

Have you ever considered that he was smart enough to realize that it's not possible for God not to exist? That's what I feel is the case.

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein

"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." - Albert Einstein

Einstein did not believe in a personal God. So yes,He was all that smart.

He was not a believer in your Christian deity. To suggest otherwise shows a lack of understanding for his position.

Einstein was more of an agnostic or even a pantheist. He did not believe in a personal god - that means no religious entity, no heaven, no hell, no doctrine or dogma. He used the term "god" to describe the universe in an abstract sense. Stephen Hawking does the same thing.

Einstein did not see God as a theist does. He described God as a non-personal, non-dogmatic, intellegent energy source. Some use this to try and claim that he was an atheist. Eintein was no atheist, he just understood God in scientific terms. +?+

His most famous quote is: "God does not play dice."

His point was that there is intelligence in the universes and that things did not come together as a random event without intelligence. So you are right that Einstein did appear to believe in a supreme intelligence of some kind, but I don't think he was an advocate of any religion.

He did not believe in a personal god. The few quoted lines use god as a metaphor, in some others he makes it quite clear that he thinks nothing of religion.

In a letter to Eric Gutkind in 1954 Einstein said:

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

Einstein was not an atheist but he was not a God believer either, in the sense of Abrahamic God, he did not believe in a personal God.

HE WAS A PANTHEIST.

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