Was Albert Einstein an atheist?

[Mike_Yates]

Was Albert Einstein an atheist or agnostic?

 

[LadyVer]

He wasn't an atheist. Google might help.

 

[LiFeNdEaTh]

good story teller lol

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Richard Feynman is my guide to the universe. He was atheist but cautioned atheists to be mindful of the reality that the universe is fulla stuff rather than nothing, and all the stuff interacts within complex order.

 

[doctor_insanus]

"It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem—the most important of all human problems."

 

[Tryharder62]

"I tried to imagine the easiest way God could have done it."Albert Einstein

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." Albert Eistein

 

[Bad_Doggie]

Was Albert Einstein an atheist or agnostic?

A Deist.

But, so what?

Woof!

 

[Bad_Doggie]

"I tried to imagine the easiest way God could have done it."Albert Einstein

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." Albert Eistein

What do you think that shows?

And why would it be important?

Woof!

 

[BotanyBoy]

"I tried to imagine the easiest way God could have done it."Albert Einstein

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." Albert Eistein

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."-AE

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."-AE

"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."-AE

"Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble."-AE

He certainly wasn't religious in the traditional sense....

From what I read on the matter he seemed to view science as a way of understanding "God" which he didn't think was some fucking mystical sky daddy telling you "no tattoo's but cut the end of your dick off, just because I sayz so!! ooogie boogie boogie boo!!!" to the point he outright mocked organized religion, but couldn't call himself an atheist either for what he saw in science.

Carl Sagan weighed in on this in one of his books, I forgot which one, I think it was a "Demon Haunted World" but it could have been another. I went on a kick for a while and read like 4 of his books in a row so they kinda got smeared in the memory, anyhow. He's another really cool cat with some really interesting thoughts on the whole god/science relationship.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I was into Hush Puppies long before Carl Sagan made them cool.

 

[gretchenmilliner]

Albert Einstein was neither atheist nor agnostic. One of his more famous quotes was his summary of his objections to quantum theory, "God does not play dice with the universe."
Now, "did Albert Einstein believe in free will?" is an interesting question.