Comments on: Great thinkers and artists who are/were Atheist, Pantheist or Agnostic

By: Ethan Z.

Ethan Z. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:41:21 +0000

@Gregory Sams
Thanks, I did not make that video, just wanted to share it here because I liked the way it was put together

By: IC

IC — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:03:02 +0000

@Ethan Z.
well it is difficult to rely on web’s infinite and sometimes contradicting “”facts”", but..:
first, a notable speech related to him, is nicely put in this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWraC-OUudc&feature=related

second, as said before it is hard to know if this is true, but, watch this scene, especially focus at 1:47 – this quote is directed to our conversation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwATSpuNRWs&NR=1

what I mentioned actually comes from being familiar with what is pronounced in here, as I found it now post your enquiry :

Einstein is said to have held a concept of God similar to that promulgated by Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Einstein studied Spinoza and identified with Spinoza both culturally and philosophically. The Encyclopedia Britannica says of him: “Firmly denying atheism, Einstein expressed a belief in ‘Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists.’ This actually motivated his interest in science, as he once remarked to a young physicist: ‘I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.’ Einstein’s famous epithet on the ‘uncertainty principle’ was ‘God does not play dice.’”
( out of http://www.adherents.com/people/pe/Albert_Einstein.html )

By: Ethan Z.

Ethan Z. — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:34:43 +0000

Thanks for the comment.

Do you have evidence that Einstein thought there was a creator to adore?

IMHO, Einstein was a Pantheism not a theist.

By: Gregory Sams

Gregory Sams — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:50:58 +0000

Nice list of names, but I’m still trying to figure out why you linked atheist, pantheist and agnostic. They are all non-Christian, but so is Buddhism, animism, Sun worship, etc.
Carl Sagan, in your list, had some good things to say about Sun worship, which I quote at http://www.sunofgod.net

By: Itai C

Itai C — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:47:18 +0000

Einstein was amazed by the creator’s almighty genious qaulity;
Voltaire was a believer;
Nietzche… was a miserable suffering man

but the thing is … a person can be very good at what s/he does, it does not raise or lower the concept of divinity.
Hitler was a great rhetorician, a poor humanitarian.