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Einstein explicitly stated to believe in God Source? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Religious_views http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#

Einstein explicitly stated to believe in God Source? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Religious_views http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#Religious_views In 1929, Einstein told Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind." In a 1950 letter to M. Berkowitz, Einstein stated that "My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment." Einstein also stated: "I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth." [...] Einstein clarified his religious views in a letter he wrote in response to those who claimed that he worshipped a Judeo-Christian god: "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

lst 18y ago
You cite from 1929? There are many many citations, and often contradictory ones. He certainly changed his opinion during his lifetime. My source is a book (here in Europe, from 2008, not english). If you google a bit, you can find any kind of contradictory stuff, so internet and truth are not always friends (and we all know this).
- gravitycop 18y ago
  >> Source? > My source is a book What is the name? Who is the author?
  - lst 18y ago
    Do you know Italian? If yes, it's a book I'd recommend to everybody: Author: Antonio Socci (a really good and meticulous italian journalist) Name: "Indagine su Gesù" It's a plain scientific research about the life of Jesus (with many many citations from every direction, including many atheists). The book sells very well these days...
    - lst 18y ago
      ...and sorry for this annotation: The US certainly suffers 'superficiality' more than any other country. If you want to find really scientific stuff about religion, you often need to go back to good old Europe...
    - gravitycop 18y ago
      Author: Antonio Socci Name: "Indagine su Gesù" Thank you. Do you know Italian? No. I know Google Translate. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaparatzinger2-blograffaella.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fcaccia-delle-orme-razionali-di-ges-il.html&sl=it&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaparat... Socci continues in this introductory chapter showing the positions of the greatest contemporary scientists, from Einstein to Hawking, by scholars of the Big Bang to those of DNA: all agree that the most reasonable answer to the mystery and the great dell'infinitamente 'infinitely small, as well as in front of the surprise at the amazing complexity of even the most minute living organism, is to admit a Creator. In short, something we call God But if science and reason - more and more, contrary to what one wants to believe - leads to the recognition of the existence of a God, the more dense is the enigma if we try to go down ' existence the essence. Could you please provide the evidence (quotes, etc.) that Socci cites?
      - lst 18y ago
        OK, in the first chapter of the book (page 19), there is this paragraph (I'm not good in translating to English, but I'll try): "Einstein said that the natural laws are revealing such a superior reason, that all of human thinking and ordering are only an insignificant reflection, compared to them." The next paragraph explains that Flew has been influenced decisively by the opinion of Einstein. It informs that many people said Einstein to be atheist or spinozistic pantheist. Then it cites Einstein again: "I'm no atheist, and I don't think that I could define myself as pantheist. We are in the situation of a child which enters a huge library, full of books written in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written these books, but doesn't know how. And it doesn't know the languages the books are written in. The child suspects being a mysterious order in the disposition of the books, but doesn't know which. This seems to me the human position, even of the most intelligent ones, in front of God..." (there follow some other sentences, but this should already be enough). Happy now? The book is full of citations and annotations (they are counted, and the last one has the number 529). The author collected the material for the book in several years, and he's a really meticulous writer, I know him quite well.

lst 18y ago

You cite from 1929? There are many many citations, and often contradictory ones. He certainly changed his opinion during his lifetime. My source is a book (here in Europe, from 2008, not english). If you google a bit, you can find any kind of contradictory stuff, so internet and truth are not always friends (and we all know this).

gravitycop 18y ago
>> Source? > My source is a book What is the name? Who is the author?
- lst 18y ago
  Do you know Italian? If yes, it's a book I'd recommend to everybody: Author: Antonio Socci (a really good and meticulous italian journalist) Name: "Indagine su Gesù" It's a plain scientific research about the life of Jesus (with many many citations from every direction, including many atheists). The book sells very well these days...
  - lst 18y ago
    ...and sorry for this annotation: The US certainly suffers 'superficiality' more than any other country. If you want to find really scientific stuff about religion, you often need to go back to good old Europe...
  - gravitycop 18y ago
    Author: Antonio Socci Name: "Indagine su Gesù" Thank you. Do you know Italian? No. I know Google Translate. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaparatzinger2-blograffaella.blogspot.com%2F2008%2F11%2Fcaccia-delle-orme-razionali-di-ges-il.html&sl=it&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpaparat... Socci continues in this introductory chapter showing the positions of the greatest contemporary scientists, from Einstein to Hawking, by scholars of the Big Bang to those of DNA: all agree that the most reasonable answer to the mystery and the great dell'infinitamente 'infinitely small, as well as in front of the surprise at the amazing complexity of even the most minute living organism, is to admit a Creator. In short, something we call God But if science and reason - more and more, contrary to what one wants to believe - leads to the recognition of the existence of a God, the more dense is the enigma if we try to go down ' existence the essence. Could you please provide the evidence (quotes, etc.) that Socci cites?
    - lst 18y ago
      OK, in the first chapter of the book (page 19), there is this paragraph (I'm not good in translating to English, but I'll try): "Einstein said that the natural laws are revealing such a superior reason, that all of human thinking and ordering are only an insignificant reflection, compared to them." The next paragraph explains that Flew has been influenced decisively by the opinion of Einstein. It informs that many people said Einstein to be atheist or spinozistic pantheist. Then it cites Einstein again: "I'm no atheist, and I don't think that I could define myself as pantheist. We are in the situation of a child which enters a huge library, full of books written in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written these books, but doesn't know how. And it doesn't know the languages the books are written in. The child suspects being a mysterious order in the disposition of the books, but doesn't know which. This seems to me the human position, even of the most intelligent ones, in front of God..." (there follow some other sentences, but this should already be enough). Happy now? The book is full of citations and annotations (they are counted, and the last one has the number 529). The author collected the material for the book in several years, and he's a really meticulous writer, I know him quite well.