Re: [asa] An anthology of quotations "50 Nobelists who believe in God"

I think this data is inaccurate.

I'm still to read The God Delusion (my copy arrives today) but I believe
Dawkins talks about Einstein's "religion" in the first chapter. Einstein
was essentially a pantheist, and therefore could not be said to believe in
God (at least in a way that would irritate Dawkins :-)

Likewise, I think it's stretching a point to say that Darwin believed in
God. I think he lost his faith and became an agnostic. Despite references
to the "creator" in the last page of "Origin", I think it may have been a
metaphorical reference, just as was Einstein's "God does not play dice".

I think the author of the site has just trawled for references to "God"
without interpreting what the author meant, and hence this is wishful
thinking.

Iain

On 4/30/07, Alexanian, Moorad <alexanian@uncw.edu> wrote:
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