Biographer Walter Isaacson just completed a new biography on Einstein. A
section from the book on Einstein and faith can be found here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298,00.html
As George mentioned Einstein would not appreciate being appropriated by
atheists like Dawkins. "There are people who say there is no God," he told a
friend. "But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of
such views."
On 4/30/07, George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/ <http://web.raex.com/%7Egmurphy/>
>
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