The April issue of TIME magazine featured a book excerpt (last accessed 4/13/07) from the forthcoming Einstein by Walter Isaacson. Titled “Einstein and Faith,” the excerpt clarifies the nature of Einstein’s belief in God as well as his relation to his Jewishness. His parents Pauline and Hermann were quite unreligious, spiritual kin to not a few Jews in the 21st century. Despite this upbringing, young Einstein took a passionate turn to Judaism for several years, then quite suddenly abandoned it all at age 12.
He felt atheists were arrogant; in contrast, he felt utterly humbled before the “unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.”
Thoughts?
Here is the link..
http://www.jewsforjesus.org/blog/20070413--Einstein
2007-04-16 05:56:11 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A very fascinating man. I wish I could have conversed with him regarding the Bible and its being able to prove its Authorship coming from the eternal.
http://schnebin.blogspot.com/2006/05/gods-word-proven.html
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
2007-04-16 05:59:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 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
2007-04-16 06:07:00 · answer #2 · answered by eldad9 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
one more time from the horses mouth.
"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 in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas (Einstein's secretary) and Banesh Hoffman, and published by Princeton University
2007-04-16 07:02:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
APPEAL TO NOTORIETY
1. Famous person X believed in God.
2. Therefore, God exists.
Sorry, spanky. Whatever you're trying to do here only backfires on you.
Einstein rejected the Christian God, and he made this quite clear in everything he said about him. Einstein felt more attached to Spinoza's god, a god who wasn't exactly an entity but more of a higher power within nature. He was a deist, at best.
2007-04-16 06:15:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As always, people like you conveniently look over Einstein's statements about what he called "the greatest lie ever told about me." True, Einstein believed there was a god, but he absolutely did not believe in a PERSONAL god. Therefore, he did not believe in any god which one is to have a personal relationship; he believed in a hands-off god. And he didn't say that atheists were arrogant; he said that some atheists were arrogant. In particular, he was referring to atheist counterparts of other religions, the fundamentalists who spoke in nothing but absolutes. Try learning the entire story behind Einstein's beliefs in the future, and don't quote him out of context. It just makes you look foolish.
2007-04-16 06:05:17 · answer #5 · answered by seattlefan74 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Einstein was a strange dude. He did believe in God, though not a personal God. It was Einstein who pushed the idea of Intelligent Design about 50 years ago. The idea had little support in the scientific community back then. It has recently resurfaced with little more support. Many evolutionist erroneously believe that ID is a creationist idea. Not true, creationist think it is a good step, but not good enough.
As I said , he was a strange dude. His reputation is maligned by many.
2007-04-16 06:13:11 · answer #6 · answered by Desperado 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein believed in God, but you're wrong if you think he was a Christian. Einstein never called himself anything and his beliefs are more in lines with being a Freethinker or a Deist, probably the former.
2007-04-16 06:04:04 · answer #7 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thoughts?? You keep spreading this, as if Einstein was on your side. Guess what? He thought the notion of a personal God and Savior Jesus was just as ridiculous....
Read what you wrote. HE WAS A JEW. Not a Christian. And, frankly, who cares if Einstein beleived in the possibility of a God?? Even great men make mistakes.
2007-04-16 06:01:42 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I hope you also read the part that shows how Einstein did NOT believe in the Christian God or any personal god, but more of a higher power in the universe.
My thoughts are that I'm glad he was okay with whatever be believed in.
2007-04-16 05:59:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
He did not believe in your idea of a personal God. He was awed by the natural world, and called that awe "God." I would argue that all atheists are pantheists in the Einsteinian sense.
A poor choice of words on Einstein's part, since people like you are so happy to misinterpret them, but they are still very true.
2007-04-16 06:04:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
But he did not believe that God existed in a "personal' relationship with us, had made himself known through revelation, or that God could or would intervene in human affairs through miracles. Assent to God's existence is one thing, what's God's nature is, precisely, is something else. Einstein's conception of God is quite close to the God of Aristotle or of philosophical deism.
2007-04-16 06:05:05 · answer #11 · answered by Timaeus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋