Is Atheism Intellectual Cowardice?

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What about Isaac Newton or Albert Einstein?

Einstein was not religious. Read my signature for his words on his belief. Einstein used the word 'God' to describe the unknown aspects of the cosmos that the human intellect cannot grasp. These sayings have been highjacked by theists to falsely give the impression that the one of the greatest minds of all time was religious.

And Newton was into alchemy, so in those respects, he was a moron.

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While it is true that Einstein did not believe in a personal God, he certainly believed in a kind of pantheistic God that was synonymous with nature itself. For example, on his death bed the nurse opened the curtains to his room and remarked at the view, "Isn't God's garden beautiful."

Einstein muttered, "God's garden?, does this women not understand, He is the garden!".

Einstein always believed that his studies into Physics were "to look into the mind of God."

There are endless quotes like this which show that, although not orthodox, Einstein certainly had religious leanings.

As for Newton, he may have been wrong about Alchemy, but to refer to him as a moron is, frankly, silly.

PS: Thanks for the Einstein quote though - he seems to make the agnostic case far better than I ever could.