[Retired Greyhound]

sounds as if Einstein was a deist. Believed in a Higher Power or Creative Intelligence, but didn’t think it participated in worldly affairs.

I’ve found that astronomers and physicists are more open towards a deity than biologists. I have read that, in Einstein’s case, creative intelligence was the only possible way to explain how such cosmic marvels could exist.

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I’ve found that astronomers and physicists are more open towards a deity than biologists.

Me too, Retired Greyhound! Very curious....

Though we dislike "labeling" people, Einstein's views do have a deistic flavor....

I have read that, in Einstein’s case, creative intelligence was the only possible way to explain how such cosmic marvels could exist.

Indeed. Einstein may indeed have believed there is a creative intelligence behind the "pure marble of geometry" that lay at the root of "the base wood" of material phenomena. He calls him/it the "Old One," or the Lord....

Thank you so much for sharing your insight, Retired Greyhound!