Did einstein believe in god ???

Question

Did einstein believe in god ???

Answer 1

He was raised a Jew.
But as has been pointed out, people with his IQ tend to become Atheists and Einstein is no exception.
He did use the word "god" from time to time, but only when trying to explain difficult concepts to the media. His famous quote of "god does not play dice with the universe" is a prime example. He never would have used such a childish platitude with other scientists. He kept such sayings for the unwashed hoi-polloi...

Answer 2

Einstein did, infact, believe in God. His research was actually limited by that belief...

"God does not play dice with the Universe" should be the biggest proof of this...

Answer 3

Einstein said "God does not play dice!" to Neils Bohr when confronted with the dependence of Bohr's atomic theory on random occurrences.

Bohr replied, "Albert, stop telling God what to do!"

Einstein eventually came to be at peace with the randomness of atomic interactions. Whether he came to be at peace with God is something only he (and God) can answer.

JIM

Answer 4

Christians and Jews on the one side, and atheists on the other have tried to claim Einstein as one of them, but in fact he was none of the above. Einstein was a deeply spiritual person, who often referred to God. He did not, however, believe in a personal God, but was more or less a Deist.

In his own words:

"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."

"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."

Answer 5

Einstein was a Zionist so yes he believed in the Jewish God Yaweh.

Answer 6

"Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntary and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own." ... "The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is." Einstein's speech 'My Credo' to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin, autumn 1932

He was a profoundly religious man whose pursuit of science was his way to understanding the miracle of the universe. His theory of relativity grew from a thought experiment - what would happen if I travelled on a beam of light.

Answer 7

As I recall, in his rejection of Quantum Theory, old Al was heard to claim that "God does not play with dice".

That suggests that he may have beleived, or at the very least respected the concept of God.

Answer 8

Most people who posses an IQ as high as Albert Einsteins was are almost always Atheists. It is a proven fact that the higher the intelligence level the less likely one is to believe in creationism.

Answer 9

I like injanier's reply the best.

His original comment about God not playing dice, was NOT delivered to the media. On the other hand, he was a Marxist, and we know what they think about organized religion.

Answer 10

When they asked him if he believed in God he answered.If God did not exist we had to invent him
I explain this that he did not believe,and answered trans-passing the question