Having just recommended Jammer's book, it occured to me that it might be helpful to quote from it one of Einstein's letters from 1952 which distances him from the likes of Dawkins. It's on pp.121-122.
"The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a 'Freethinker' in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as 'laws of nature.' It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality."
Shalom
George
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