They're his words, not mine. From Wikipedia:
He sometimes retorted sharply, "
I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God", and at other times was more guarded, telling a young count studying with Haeckel that he "did not believe that there ever has been any Revelation. As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities." He declined a request by the
Archbishop of Canterbury to join a 'Private Conference' of devout scientists to harmonise science and religion, for he saw "no prospect of any benefit arising" from it.
Dude, first of all, I never said Einstein claimed to be a Christian. I did, however, say he was a believer in Creator G-d.
In order to be a Christian, you have to be not only a follower of Christ (he was), but also confess with your lips Yeshua is the Son of G-d (that he didn't do).
Einstein believed in Almighty G-d, he was clearly a follower of Jesus's teachings, and he said the Holy Spirit guided his work. This is a fact of Einstein. Deal with it.
Hmm, no. Darwin deconverted after his daughter died.
The point being that Darwin was a great scientist and also a Christian. As with some Christians, he lost faith when a crisis hit. This phenomena does happen to the best of us, you know. The trick is to take it to the L-rd in prayer. If I had a son or daughter and was in teh same shoes as Darwin, would I lose faith? Would I doubt? This is something I cannot answer unless I actually were to arrive at the impasse.
Right, let me get this straight: atheists want to make the atheistic poster boy look like the bad guy by characterising him as an atheist? I'm nonplussed...
No. Atheists want to make a born-again Christian who doubted (see previous quote reply) look like the Atheist he wasn't.
Darwin was a Christian. Einstein followed the teachings of Yeshua Meshiakh. Live with it. Deal with it. Pop some anti-depressants, if necessary.
Nice straw man.
First, I said that most people retain the religion of their parents (including children of atheists, though that isn't really a religion). Second, I said that half of all scientists are atheistic; the other half, one would think, is composed of theists (mostly Christians, as it turns out). Neither contradict the other.
Lol, first off, there's really no such thing as an "Atheist scientist"; the two words, when joined together, form something called an oxymoron.
Secondly, most scientists of any repute will likely follow Jesus and his teachings unless of course your a Nazi military scientist working on a V1 rocket or something.
The following Great Men of Science believe(d) on the only begotten S-n:
Copernicus
William Turner
Danti
John Napier
Kepler
Gothus
Galileio
Mersenne
Descartes
Pascal, Wallis, Ray, Newton, Leibniz, Euler, Linnaeus, Milner, Gregory, Buckland, Cauchy, Faraday, Babbage, Segwick, JC Maxwell, Mandel, Gosse...
...I'm giving up because this spreadshjeet has too many names to list. But I like what JC Maxwell (law of constancy of light speed guy) said:
"Although Clerk as a boy was taken to Presbyterian services by his father and to Anglican services by his aunt, while still a young student at Cambridge he underwent an Evangelical conversion. In the biography by Cambell (p.170) Maxwell's conversion is described: "He referred to it long afterwards as having given him a new perception of the Love of God. One of his strongest convictions thenceforward was that 'Love abideth, though Knowledge vanish away."
Now the only Atheist scientists I'm aware of that actually contributed anything meaningful to science would be Carl Sagan, and even then he was more a leader and author than discoverer (don't get me wrong on Sagan--he does have a good heart. Did.).
You got Dawkins, which makes Atheism look bad not good.
Which is odd, since Enstein didn't believe in God (or, at least, the Judaeo-Christian God).
All of which point to a general feeling of spirituality. As for the references to 'God', Einstein himself was quite explicit:
"I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind."
We've already been thru this. We now know Einstein to be a great man of G-d as well as a great physicist, even if he didn't believe G-d was malicious, or cast down punishment/reward.
The fact Einstein didn't take the Bible so literally doesn't diminish he was a great man of G-d. Some friends thought he spoke more of a theologian than a physicist sometimes!