Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

http://religion.netscape.com/story/2007/05/10/dawkins-the-god-delusion

“A failure? He’s the ‘Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science’ at Oxford University. He is the head of evolutionary biology at Oxford; I have heard many lectures he has given, exclusively about science, and they were pretty damn good.” -Deadhead13

“my opinion, God, Yahweh, Mohammed, Jesus,Buddah,Great Spirit, this is a force we are talking about, something that knows right and wrong and good and evil. We are becoming lost sheep again. God in my eyes is both good and evil, as is thunder and lightning generated from one force. This is my belief of God, part of the cosmos, part of nature,part of all livings and non living things. Everything.” -SitNlook

“Morality has nothing to do with religion. Ideology will always cause humans to kill each other, quite often over minor differences in doctrine, with or without religion. That’s what humans do. That comment made, religion does do a lot of harm, Dawkins is mainly right, only wrong in a few small details. Einsteinian religion is the only kind of religion that merits respect. ”
-Samsara15

“*sighs* I’m tired of people saying Atheism is not a religion or belief system or anything of the sort. A, when being used as a prefix means “No” or “An absence of.” Theism or it’s many forms means “God or gods.” Thus, combine the two together and you come up with “An absence of God or gods.” There are several religions that happen to be Atheistic. Among them are Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, and Taoism.” -JNP8907

“Well, maybe its because we can’t understand the violent murderous response the religious people have towards just about everything, but expecially toward atheists. Hypocrite. And, we require proof of idiotic claims, like the existance of a imaginary invisible father in the sky what knows your name and will decide whether you will “go to heaven or hell”. If you make some insane claim such as that, you better have proof. But you don’t, do you?” -Espse

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat new kind of religion.

I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

“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. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

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I have one specific issue. God is a very vague concept which leaves a lot of room to make all kinds of claims about your beliefs. But surely one property of a god must be that it is sentient, i.e. self aware. But I see nowhere that Einstein even suggests that the natural universe has this quality.