Of course he didn't follow the bible, but I found this.......In an attempt to define why and in what way he was "religious, " Einstein said, "Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious
2007-07-19 20:05:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
US (German-born) physicist.............genius - vegetarian - devotee of God and Science
2007-07-19 20:10:49 · update #1
I didn't make that up
2007-07-19 20:11:25 · update #2
To those that gave the quotes, it seems to me that he was talking about a christian god, he wasn't christian......
2007-07-19 20:17:32 · update #3
Yes, he believed in a higher power, though he never claimed to know exactly who or what this was. Brilliant man.
A favorite part for me of one of his quotes:
"....I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
Reason that manifests itself in nature. There is Reason in nature with a capital R, lol.
Meat, saying there is no personal God is different from saying no God at all.
Right Hardy, he was Jewish.
Fact is he believed in something, and if that makes him Agnostic so be it. Point is, he wasn't an Atheist.
Edit: Switched my link to the wiki article, has more info.
2007-07-19 20:08:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Einstein's famous saying (later shown by Bohr, Heisenberg and others to be mistaken) that "God does not throw dice", was probably an expression of his Scientific Pantheism.
Although he was always loyal to his Jewish traditions, Einstein was not a deist.
http://pantheism.net/
2007-07-20 03:33:28 · answer #2 · answered by Iain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, apparently einstein was some sort of weak-kneed agnostic theist, and somehow christians take comfort from this. but why should i care what einstein believed? just because he was smart doesn't mean that his opinions about god were any more valid than anyone else's. he was wrong about many things: relativity was apparently not one of them, but his apparent dislike of quantum mechanics now seems a little silly.
consider:
http://www.csicop.org/si/2007-03/einstein.html
2007-07-20 03:19:36 · answer #3 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I looked up the quote in question, and could not find any source for it. Einstein has said repeatedly that people have lied about him being religious, and this seems to be holding true far after his death.
He's a scientist. He's on our side. Get over it.
2007-07-20 03:16:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. [Albert Einstein, obituary in New York Times, 19 April 1955]
2007-07-20 03:13:26 · answer #5 · answered by hypno_toad1 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He was a diest, he also didn't believe in an afterlife.
An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. [The World as I See It]
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. [Telegram of 1929, in Hoffman and Dukas]
2007-07-20 03:22:49 · answer #6 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"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." From a letter Einstein wrote in English, dated 24 March 1954.
2007-07-20 03:08:26 · answer #7 · answered by Uncle Meat 5 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Einstein WAS a christian. Unlike some scientists today he knew that all invention is inspired of God.
2007-07-20 03:15:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
Most of your answerers don't know what they are talking about. Albert Einstein was Jewish.
2007-07-20 03:14:28 · answer #9 · answered by Smartassawhip 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
He would best be classified as a pantheist.
2007-07-20 03:37:37 · answer #10 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋