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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't realize Einstein had anything to do with Creationism. He was a believer though, so point taken :lol: [/quote]
Here is Einstein on his belief: "It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem—the most important of all human problems."

Calling him a believer may not be totally wrong, but it is certainly misleading.  He called himself an agnostic.

Note:  This is from Wikipedia, but with a citation for the quote.

PS I don't mean to quote Einstein as an expert on religion.  I think he was expressing a personal viewpoint, not intending to tell anyone else what to believe, although it happens to describe my beliefs with more eloquence than I could muster.[/quote]
PP here. I didn't mean to mislead anyone (hense the reference to Creationism). E. not being a militant denier is enough for me to call him a believer.[/quote]

These were Einstein's views on religion.  Interpret them however you like, but he clearly didn't believe in the typical Judeo-Christian definition of god and describes the bible as a book of childish legends.

[quote]“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weakness, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still purely primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can change this for me.”[/quote]

[quote]“I am not an Atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a Pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds… 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.”
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http://www.inquisitr.com/1538169/was-albert-einstein-an-atheist-or-not-read-his-final-words-on-god/[/quote]

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