That’s too bad.
Einstein was a strict determinist. He didn’t even believe that God had free will.
I guess he knows now.
It would take a mind far greater than Einstein’s to find an equation that describes God.
I hope he and Hawking are enjoying their retirement from fame and fortune.
He was obviously educated beyond his ability to think................
A copy of the Bible can be had for free, and adherence to it built the civilization in which Einstein prospered.
Too bad. Other scientists have gotten criticized for saying the very existence of the Earth with oceans and land, animals and humans, the perfect distance of the sun and moon all point to intelligent creation.
Agree with ol’Einstein. Belief in a supernatural being is a sign of weakness and self delusion. But, if it keeps you from killing me and my family...believe on!
The error of human hubris is not in the belief that we know such a great amount of knowledge, but the belief that all knowledge is within our reach, on our own, no matter how distant in time it may take us to acquire it.
It is the imperfect being, the human, with an eqo that thinks perfection is within its reach, and thus that eqo must deny a perfect being to whom all knowledge is already known and much may always be a mystery to the human. The arrogant ego can’t take feeling so small and insignificant.
Well, ‘ol Albert’s a little disappointing, isn’t he?
As someone has already pointed out, he knows better now.
and yet, one of Einstein’s most famous quotes is, “God does not play dice with the universe...”
Einstein was a brilliant physicist, a mediocre theologian.
I once had a university English professor who categorically forbade us on day one to write an essay touching on Christianity or Christ.
He later assigned not one but two essays by Ol’ Al on religion - including commentary on Christianity. I considered that egregious hypocrisy and fighting words.
I defiantly wrote a point-by-point rebuttal of Einstein’s sophistry without first seeking permission. I was prepared to flunk.
I got an A. The teacher was honest in his way, and acknowledged that my essay was brilliant, and that his assignment invited protest.
I was debating theologians at 16, and attending pastoral conferences at 19 (by special invitation).
Although I garnered multiple awards in the physical sciences, including physics, in my youth, I admit that Einstein was far my superior there.
On theology, I was far Einstein’s superior; he was just another overrated hack. (Take that as bragging as you like; I am through affecting false modesty after everything I have witnessed in secular society and the institutionalized church.)
I am so infernally sick and tired of seeing leftist icons heralded as experts on conservatism and Christianity.
This is far from a comprehensive description of Einstein’s views on God and the transcendent.
A much more accurate and richer understanding can be gained from the two chapters, written by Einstein, in Ken Wilber’s
“Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists.”
From the description:
“Quantum Questions collects the mystical writings of each of the major physicists involved in the discovery of quantum physics and relativity, including Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, and Max Planck. The selections are written in nontechnical language and will be of interest to scientists and nonscientists alike.”
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