(December 18, 2008 at 9:43 am)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Einstein was a pantheist. It was only a metaphor. He didn't seem to believe in the supernatural at all. According to Dawkins he wasn't even a deist as he's often thought. Dawkins has said that deism is watered down-theism. Patheism is sexed-up atheism.
When Einstein said "God does not roll dice" it was basically his response to quantum mechanics and why he thought it was wrong, and what he basically meant was: The universe is not governed by random chance.
He used God as a metaphor as Stephen Hawking does/did.
Or so I've heard.
Einstein described himself as: "A deeply religious nonbeliever" and he said it was a "somewhat new kind of religion".
I've just done a quick check and found this quote by Einstein:
"Do you believe in the God of Spinoza?" Einstein replied as follows:
I can't answer with a simple yes or no. I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvellously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things.'' 26
http://www.ctinquiry.org/publications/torrance.htm
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
