Was Einstein an atheist?

by John on July 13, 2008

From time to time people speculate whether Einstein was an atheist. Richard Dawkins, for example, said in his book The God Delusion that Einstein was an atheist. However, Einstein addressed this point directly:

I am not an atheist, and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist.

This quote comes from There Is a God by Anthony Flew. Flew in turn credits Max Jammer’s book Einstein and Religion, page 44.

For sixty years Anthony Flew was an apologist for atheism. Four years ago he announced that he had changed is mind. Last year he published There Is a God, an account of how he first became an atheist and of how decades later he reversed his position.

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Holyheretic 12.20.10 at 17:03

Einstein was an atheist. I documented this in my new blog Einstein the Atheist.
http://einsteintheatheist.blogspot.com/

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