What are your personal views regarding Albert Einstein's personal beliefs? (If you don't know what they are, please don't make assumptions or bother to answer the question).
2007-06-02 07:14:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think they are his personal beliefs. He had a somewhat deistic view of God, and really used the idea of God as more of a metaphor for some of the deeper mysteries of nature. He wasn't afraid to use the word God but did not mean the same thing by it as people mean by the Abrahamic God. He said a lot of things in his life which were difficult to understand by people who were less intelligent than he (which includes nearly all the population of the Earth).
2007-06-02 07:21:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Einstein stated in multiple letters and autobiographies that he did not believe in a personal God; and wonder at the complexity of the universe was good enough for him.
I agree, my goal in life is to figure out as much about the place as possible while I'm here.
2007-06-02 14:26:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am kinda with him. I definitely that the idea of a personal, caring God is imposible.
I am not sure about his believe in order and granduer being a form of God. He was awed at how everything in the universe worked together. So he must have believed in some form of intellegent spark that got everything going.
I am a little more inclined to think that it is more likely that is was a random event, and we are extremely lucky to be here.
2007-06-02 14:20:30 · answer #3 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My understanding is that Einstein was a believer in a "force" type God. When he said God does not play dice with the universe He was expressing his views that the Universe itself has a "spiritual" essences. Not in an intelligent creator but in the idea that we are all of God and all are God as we are all part of the universe
2007-06-02 14:18:50 · answer #4 · answered by Thomas G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with him. In case answerers don't know his views, here they are expressed simply and eloquently:
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)
I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. (Albert Einstein)
2007-06-02 14:18:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I like his comment on his death bed about God being a Gardner with the universe being his garden and Einstein said he'd spent his entire life trying to catch him at his work.
I would've liked to meet Einstein he seemed like a very caring, thoughtful person.
2007-06-02 14:23:37 · answer #6 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a pantheist , by definition any force that is greater than you is defined as god not in the Supreme Being, More of a Supreme force.Not so much as dictates you but all things in a Beautiful disaster. ie String Theory
2007-06-02 14:18:34 · answer #7 · answered by Snooter McPrickles 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God gifted him extra brain above us to derive the formula E=mc2. He did belive in a God. He said "Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated. 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 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 is there.
2007-06-02 14:33:30 · answer #8 · answered by Ismail Eliat 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
my personal views on Einstein's personal views... lol
didnt he believe in some supernatural force/being, just not in any religion?
2007-06-02 14:20:43 · answer #9 · answered by funaholic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm in the midst of reading his biography - so from the opinions I've seen from the biographers, I think he placed too much faith in the function and organization of the universe, and not enough in how the universe came to be.
I think he lost faith for the wrong reasons - and neglected to consider the body vs. the conscious (also known as the spirit) - Of all of the things he coulde explain, consciousness was not one of them.
2007-06-02 14:20:18 · answer #10 · answered by jdancy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋