Einstein clearly believed in God, though, just not the God that most Christians refer to when they talk about God. Was Einstein's God a conscious agent? I don't know, and none of the quotes on that site are revealing in that regard: Atheists fail to believe in an intercessionary God, but so do many agnostics, Deists, and Eastern spiritualists (as well as others). Effectively, such beliefs are the same: Whether or not there's a conscious agent which created the universe or the laws therein, it's pointless to pray to them if they're not intercessionary.
So the problem (such that it is) is largely a semantic one. Einstein's answer to "does God exist" is largely like answering "do unicorns exist?" with "certainly, if you mean to include rhinoceroses as unicorns*." "Does God exist?" is the question, the answer is, "Yes, for sufficiently broad definitions of 'God.'" :)
* Uni-, one; -corn, horned -- since some rhinos, they're unicorns. ;)
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Date: 2007-05-07 05:12 pm (UTC)So the problem (such that it is) is largely a semantic one. Einstein's answer to "does God exist" is largely like answering "do unicorns exist?" with "certainly, if you mean to include rhinoceroses as unicorns*." "Does God exist?" is the question, the answer is, "Yes, for sufficiently broad definitions of 'God.'" :)
* Uni-, one; -corn, horned -- since some rhinos, they're unicorns. ;)