Albert Einstein and God?

Question

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhJ3GnzqCB4L_Ry354YFseHd7BR.?qid=20070819202224AAe9uDq

OK so most of you who saw that question would have thought the lady asking it was referring too god as in christian god (judging by your answers)
When in fact she meant to say Mr. einstein believed there was a God just not one of any religion.

So i ask the same question just cleared up a little bit.
(Without referring to any God of any religion)
If Albert Einstein believed there was a God, what makes you say there isn't?
What makes you believe you are smarter than Albert Einstein?

mooseback333. OK if you believe he believed there was a possibility of God being real, who are you to say there isn't? are you smarter than Einstein?

Understand the question and have a basis for knowledge before answering the question

NH baritone... didn't say Einstein didn't believe in a God of any religion, or were you too busy thinking you are right about everything to notice. Read the whole question before answering.

i meant didn't I say einstein...

NH baritone, for your edit: i'm tired of being nice so i'll say it like this... DUH i said eintein doesn't believe in religion. FFS can't you idiots understand that believing in a God doesn't mean you believe in any religion, or are you too self-righteous with knowledge to understand that

NH baritone... it basically means he believed there is a possibility the world didn't just happen, that something created it. If something created the universe than that thing IS god.

Answer 1

He didn't believe there was a god. He believed there could be a god. He was agnostic.


Hey I'm agnostic too.

Answer 2

I suggest you READ what Einstein said about his God belief, rather than assuming that he believed in ANY god representative of ANY religion. Paladin's answer to the earlier question gives the exact quote. I don't believe that Einstein, who said he was an agnostic, fits into the definition of a God-believer in almost any religion you can name.

I may be corrected if some one knows of such an agnostic religion, but I suggest they are simply suggesting tolerance for agnosticism, not as a central tenet of the religion.

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EDIT: By the way, if you were in any way smart enough to READ Einstein (and Spinoza), I don't think you would be asking this question. Einstein's beliefs are a hair's breadth away from overt atheism. He is much closer in philosophy and thought to an atheist than he is to any religion on the planet.

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SECOND EDIT:
Then describe that God.

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THIRD EDIT:
If the only aspect of divinity that you're willing to accept is creative power, then you're not describing any God that I've ever heard described by anyone else other than deists, and as I've heard it said by another deist, they're just like atheists except for that part about believing in God.

I suggest that you are dwelling on an insignificant point. If you are only talking about first moments, then you are divorcing yourself from an interventionist God, one that meddles with our current lives.

If that's your God, why are you so emotionally tied to the idea? What difference does it make in your daily existence? You are simply saying that you have a hard time imagining that there is some facet of the universe, of existence, that may itself be for all time self-sufficient. If you need something outside of nature to do so, then it doesn't effect you or me now. Something so inconsequential has not bearing on our present lives.

However, if there is a possibility that there is NO God, then that should spark curiosity, examination, striving to discover what the exact nature of the universe is. That is what excites me. I consider inserting God into the equation as unfulfilling, because it stifles such curiosity and limits our ability to learn, even if we are no where near those limits. Since this is, at best, a philosophical discussion, I consider the lack of belief in God much more open to possibilities than any assertion that God started it all.

Answer 3

In a letter Al said he was closer to someone's philosphy.

That "someone" had nice things to say about Jesus, so Al, if he's honest, feels something about Jesus.

That don't make him a Christian, but it does make him more worldly.

Al believed in an order and when in doubt he relied on God

What God is hard to say.

He was, at least, a diest.

He was not an Atheist or Agnostic

He made that clear

He opposed RANDOMISM

He viewed an orderly universe of rules

He view something behind it all

We can't say much more than that

Answer 4

Faith has nothing to do with intelligence. It has to do with belief. And Albert Einstein isn't not that smartest guy in everything, just math and physics and that stuff. I know tons more about trombone playing that Einstein ever knew. Am I smarter that Einstein? In terms of tromboning I am.

Answer 5

No, you are dead wrong. From your link, she said, "He was Jewish so I guess he believed in that religion's concept of God."

Playing games with capitalization, and acting a an apologist does not change facts.

Albert Einstein did not believe in any entity called "God". Einstein was a Pantheist.

Answer 6

Thanks for following up on my question.

Einstein's belief in God was an evolutionary process. All those who said he did not believe in a God or he believed only in a certain concept of God should read Einstein's later books. Besides the book I mentioned they should also read Einstein's much later book, 'Out of My Later Years'.

Answer 7

Spinoza's god would not be agod being at all. More of another term for nature. He did not believe in a god being that interacts or interferes or cares about human life or that has the ability to do so. I suppose one would have to define or redefine the word god

Answer 8

Disagreeing with Einstein means that I think I'm smarter than him, huh? You guys are cute when you try to think!

Answer 9

einstein and I actually have some relatively similar views in that department. does that mean I'm as smart as einstein?

wait... he's still got about 30 IQ points on me... I feel stupid now. :(

lol.

Answer 10

The question is to dumb to deserve an answer!...
Leave Albert Einstein alone will you?