Famous Scientists Newton, Einstein, and Galileo believed in God! How did they define God?

Question

I've read that these men believed in God. Does anyone know what religion they practiced if any, or how did they define God? Thanks

p.s. If these men were atheists please post a reference I can read for further info.

Answer 1

No names. Just a Supreme Being who created the universe.

Grace and peace to you!

Answer 2

--Einsteins' belief seemed to be as the acknowledgement of an intelligence rather than that of a personal creator*** g71 8/8 pp. 4-5 The Order in the Universe—from Where Does It Come? ***

Einstein wrote: “The scientist’s religious feelings take the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of Natural law, which reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.”!
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Galileo----Apparently an excommunicated Catholic,

*** g92 3/22 p. 3 Galileo’s Telescope—Only the Beginning! ***

But venerated beliefs were not easily abandoned. The Catholic Church ruled that “the view that the earth is not the center of the universe and even has a daily rotation is . . . at least an erroneous belief.” Galileo was hauled before the Inquisition and spent the last years of his life under house arrest. Religious dogmatism, however, could not check the curiosity that the invention of the telescope had raised. The challenge of unlocking the secrets of the universe attracted a growing number of scientists"

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--NEWTON--Total belief in the Bible

*** w77 4/15 p. 245 Isaac Newton’s Search for God ***

WHY NEWTON REJECTED THE TRINITY

Through his scientific studies Newton came to have a high regard for the ‘Book of Nature’ and saw in it the evidence of design by God, the great Author. He also believed that the Bible was the revelation of God, and that it was always in harmony with the testimony of creation.9

--The Bible was Newton’s touchstone for testing teachings and doctrine. In discussing the creeds of the Church, Newton made this position very clear. On the basis of the eighth of the Thirty-nine Articles dealing with the Nicene, Athanasius’ and Apostles’ Creeds, he said of the Church of England:
“She doth not require us to receive them by authority of General Councils, and much less by authority of Convocations, but only because they are taken out of the Scriptures. And therefore are we authorised by the Church to compare them with the Scriptures, and see how and in what sense they can be deduced from thence? And when we cannot see the Deduction we are not to rely upon the Authority of the Councils and Synods.”

--His conclusion was even more emphatic:

“Even General Councils have erred and may err in matters of faith, and what they decree as necessary to salvation is of no strength or authority unless they can be shown to be taken from the holy Scripture.”10

--His religion was simply the religion of the Bible

Answer 3

Newton was considered a heretic in his day as rejecting the concept of a trinity. He was an Arianist by belief insisting that the One God was the Father of Christ the son.

Einstein said, "I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details."
Also a partial famous quote, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

Galileo also considered a heretic. In defense of science he said, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

Answer 4

Einstein?

"Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me."

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."

Answer 5

Einstein pantheistic or metaphorical belief is debatable as to whethter it qualitfies for your categaory or not .I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Answer 6

For example Newton was a very good student of the bible he didnot believe in the trinity, because he realize that Jesus and Jehovah weren´t the same, look for in the internet.

Look this book in the internet "An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture "

Answer 7

Einstein doesn't believe in God. Galileo was jailed because of heresy against the church.

Answer 8

Newton was an alchemist as well. Einstein was more of a Pantheistic Agnostic.

Answer 9

These men may have believed in God, but they were all persecuted by the church as heretics for expressing their scientific theories.

Answer 10

Einstein used the word "God" interchangably with "nature". It was more of a metaphor to him than a belief.