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To: Sprite518

I don’t know what book you read to give you such a distorted view of Einstein’s Theology, but you’ve got it deeply wrong. While it’s true that Einstein frequently used the word “God” in his writings and talks, it’s also completely clear from reading him that he’s absolutely not referring to a personal, conscious God.

To Einstein, God was the fundamental principles of the universe, the structure of the cosmos and the laws which underpin physical reality. He was smart enough to recognize that our understanding of those principles was sketchy and imperfect at best, hence his ‘utter humility’ at the majesty of those principles and his assertion that our ‘knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren’.

It’s completely true that he was not a militant Atheist and there are several quotes of his where he distances himself from them, but at no point in his life did he ever make any statements indicating he believed in a personal God who actively involved Himself in the lives of people, answered prayers or experienced any kind of consciousness. If you’d actually read Einstein instead of just a book about him, you’d know that.


174 posted on 05/16/2011 11:52:46 AM PDT by Behemothpanzer (You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts.)
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To: Behemothpanzer

Okay THANK YOU for admitting that Einstein did believe in a high being (aka God).

Now as for his personal view about God... that does not really matter. The heart of the debate is does God exist or not. Like I said before I would not want to be on the opposite side (like Hawking) of Max Planck or Albert Einstein.

Their personal view is all up for debate between religions. Nevertheless, they believed in God which Hawking does not.


176 posted on 05/16/2011 12:01:15 PM PDT by Sprite518
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