Einstein, the greatest intellectual beleived in God and the need of religion. Are modern athiests ....?

Question

more intelligent than Einstein ?

God - Omiscience Omnipresent Conscious Being

I found that information in a forest

Answer 1

Many intellectuals believe in God, and many others do not. Some who start out as god-believers because they grew up in religious households later become atheists, and many who begin as atheists become god-believers. Intellect is not the only factor in deciding one's faith or philosophy.

Albert Einstein may have been religious (though, as many above have pointed out, he did not believe in a personal God), but that does not prove religion correct. Thomas Jefferson, one of the greatest intellects of his time and someone who gave a lot of thought to matters of morality, owned slaves. No one is perfect.

Judas wrote: "Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson did NOT believe in god."

Lincoln's beliefs are a matter of debate. What he is alleged to have said in private stands in stark contrast to the religious references that pepper his public documents and statements. As for Thomas Jefferson, I think you'll find that he did believe in God, though a deistic god who did not meddle in the everyday affairs of men. He hoped for an afterlife. He admired Jesus, too, but as a very moral man, not as a divine being.

Answer 2

Quote from Einstein

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, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press


Btw, liar, Stephen Hawking IS the smartest man that has ever lived with an IQ that has never been surpassed.

He is also an atheist.

Answer 3

I calmly state, that I do not agree with your quote of Albert Einstein concering belief in God.

Please Patiently read this Quote from
Albert Einstein: *Thank You.

A Cosmic Religion

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs, it would be Buddhism."

Albert Einstein's own words from
the Great Scientist of this Age Journal.

Answer 4

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", edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]

Answer 5

So... now we've gone from saying that the Bible is history to changing more recent history to fit our religion? Hmmm... I believe in god (notice the lower case "g"?). But I'm not a Christian. That's because I see god more like a kid with an ant farm. I can't prove there's a god. But whether there is or isn't, I have never seen God (the one Christians believe in) do anything for anyone. In fact, I've made more "prayers" answered as an agnostic then I ever did as a Christian. A lot of philosophers believed in god (again lower case), but that god had no dealings with human beings. Look around you. Did you know that every pope has been agnostic? Wow... it's so easy to change history to fit my views! I'm gonna forget about truth and just start doing that from now on.

Answer 6

When Einstein referred to God he was speaking of the Natural Laws of the universe. Not a personified deity such as religion depicts.

Einstein himself stated quite clearly that he did not believe in a personal 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." -Einstein

So, the quick answer to the question is that Einstein did not believe in a personal God.

Answer 7

a million) Darwin wrote about Evolution no longer Einstein .. so it wasn't his idea to denounce. 2) the instructor who taught me about 'vast Bang' replaced into no longer an Atheist. 3) i do not imagine the 2d regulation of Thermodynamics ever reported Darwin. 4) No .. i visit't see God in rainbows .. only a spectrum brought about by ability of the diffusion of light 5) The Bible replaced into written by ability of adult men with Blind faith in God .. so no information there !! 6) What in the international has 2012 were given to do with some thing ?

Answer 8

Einstein did too believe in God.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say on the subject:

He argues that conflicts between science and religion "have all sprung from fatal errors." However "even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other" there are "strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies"... "SCIENCE WITHOUT RELIGION IS LAME, religion without science is blind ...a legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist." However he makes it clear that he does not believe in a personal God, and suggests that "neither the rule of human nor Divine Will exists as an independent cause of natural events. To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted...by science, for [it] can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot."

By his own definition, Einstein was a deeply religious person[39]

(Wikipedia, emphasis added)


Anyway, although he did not believe in a personal God, that does not make him atheist. It does not even make him agnostic, since he infers that religion itself is an essential element of true, complete science.

I think that modern atheists are simply not involved in everything that Einstein was. Although he was raised Jewish, Einstein did go through a small agnostic period before finally admitting that deeper divine meaning existed after some of his discoveries.

I don't think we need to call Atheists names or say that they put themselves above Einstein. I just think that everyone finds meaning in different things, and that if today's atheists knew all that Einstein did about science, many of them would also admit divine meaning.

Answer 9

One trait you might say most atheists share is not following blindly.

Just because (you say) Einstein believed in god is no reason for others to jump on board.

That would presuppose that there are no intelligent theists. There are. It's just that we all have our little foibles, our weaknesses. That doesn't cancel out little gray cells.

But it's not a lure to sign on either.

Answer 10

Einstein believed in something, but it wasn't God. Thank God for R&S to clear up stuff like this.