"It was, of course, a lie...I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
2007-12-06 07:24:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's funny how people jump to conclusions about my beliefs
2007-12-06 07:44:39 · update #1
I trust that he is clearly stating his position.
Einstein was a genius. But for years he refused to accept quantum mechanics, which was a logical conclusion of his own theories. He did this because he felt that the universe should be deterministic.
His religious position is no more valid that anyone else who has given it serious thought.
It is more valid that the religious sheep that just think what their parson/vicar/imam/priest/etc. tells them to think.
2007-12-06 07:31:27 · answer #1 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
From my know-how, he did no longer know what he replace into. He wasn't an atheist or a pantheist, because of the fact he pronounced he wasn't. He relatively could no longer understand a commencing to a God (from Jewish ideals, God has no initiating, so he could no longer have faith in that God), yet he could no longer additionally understand the order he observed in the universe without God being cutting-edge. yet he easily replace into no longer a Christian. i think of, given the Holocaust, he could have been indignant on the belief. i think of the Snopes answer however probably has something to do with it. purely like people have faith that blinking your headlights gets you killed, people tend to get emails asserting Einstein did this or replace into that and take it as gospel. :P "In view of such unity in the cosmos which I, with my constrained human techniques, am in a position to correctly known, there are yet people who say there is not any God. yet what relatively makes me indignant is they quote me for the help of such perspectives." "i'm no longer an atheist and that i do no longer think of i'm able to call myself a pantheist. we are in the situation of somewhat baby getting right into a great library crammed with books in many languages. the baby is conscious somebody ought to have written those books. It would not know how. It would not comprehend the languages wherein they are written. the baby dimly suspects a mysterious order in the preparations of the books, yet would not know what that's. That, it form of feels to me, is the techniques-set of even the main sensible individual in direction of God." upload: just to assert it, if Einstein pronounced "i'm no longer a pantheist" this is what he pronounced, whether what he additionally pronounced seems to lean in that direction, you are able to no longer say "he replace right into a pantheist." He pronounced he wasn't, and... this is purely how that's.
2016-10-19 10:30:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hahahaha, because believing in God gives you good judgement?
*cough*IRAQ*cough*
Mathematics is independent of God, as is physics. What Einstein did was of far greater a magnitude than you can imagine.
His achievements are out of the reach of most human beings, he was exceptional.
2007-12-06 07:31:51 · answer #3 · answered by jonnyAtheatus 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist, but I trust nobody's personal judgement when it comes to religion. The reality is, this is something that you have to come to a conclusion on your own, not because someone does or doesn't endorse a particular religion or philosophy.
2007-12-06 07:30:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Because i suspect he meant that God isn't for just you or you or you or you or you or you, but for everybody. And that God isn't a person but an energy. A conscious, creative energy. Imagine that!
2007-12-06 07:41:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hah!!!
Gotta ask this asker - do you trust Bush's judgement?
He believed we'd find WMDs and that this war would be over in a year or so...
2007-12-06 07:33:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
While I agree with him, it isn't because of his status as one of the most brilliant physicists of his time. It is because there isn't enough credible evidence to support the hypothesis of there being any kind of God.
2007-12-06 07:32:28 · answer #7 · answered by Rev. Still Monkeys 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can trust him as much as anyone who has an opinion. I wouldn't look to him for my own spiritual advice, probably. Are you suggesting that because of this statement, his science isn't to be trusted?
2007-12-06 07:34:16 · answer #8 · answered by Night Owl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I trust him implicitly. As one of the foremost minds of the twentieth century, and possibly the greatest thinker since Newton, I have little choice.
But then, it isn't exactly breaking news that he was an atheist anyhow.
2007-12-06 07:27:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I agree with him, I do not believe in a personal god.
2007-12-06 07:29:05 · answer #10 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋