Einstein's God

Einstein was a scientist but was he a believer?

Certainly his religious views bordered on "Deism," the belief in an all powerful and all knowing God who created our universe and established the "laws" that govern the behavior of everything. Albert did not believe in "free will" but thought everything was pre-determined by causality. He often said, "God does not place dice."

Like our third President, (Mr. Jefferson) Dr. Einstein sought to remove God from intervening and altering otherwise predetermined outcomes. No miracles of calming the sea or turning water into wine.

Like the many who seek the narrow way that leads to life, in the last part of his life, Albert sought a unifying theory that would place the apparently random behavor of "quantum mechanics" under predictive mathematical laws. Although again and again his efforts ended in failure, he never would see (or better accept) where individual action could be undetermined, but group action would be confined to predictable probabilities.

Science is the friend of religion in that it seeks truth, no matter where science leads. Religion without science is blind, but science without religion is lame.

Speaking to his step daughter, on the topic of religion, he told her, "take for yourself little, but give to others generously." Thus endorsing Christ's morality, but leaving out God's interest in our personal behavior.