albert einstein

Einstein, the universe, and God

Chosen by Time magazine to be their ‘Person of the Century’,1 Albert Einstein2 is famous for many things (apart from his shaggy visage). His theories of special and general relativity and his formula for the equivalence of mass and energy, E = mc2, changed forever our views on time and space, light and gravity, matter and energy. He is somewhat less well-known for his remark ‘God does not play dice with the universe.’ But what did Einstein really mean by ‘God’? Was his ‘God’ anything like the God of the Bible?

Childhood influences:

Although born in 1879 of German-Jewish parents, Albert was not brought up in the Jewish faith. He attended a nearby Catholic elementary school in Munich and then the local high school. A rather slow and dreamy student, Albert was bored with non-scientific subjects,3 and learned little under the harsh military-style 19th century German education system. He grew up with an aversion to discipline, and a life-long suspicion of all authority.

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7 Responses

  1. In John 14:6, Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the llfe. No man comes unto the Father but by me." Unless Einstein believed this statement, his destiny was decided.

    -John J Flanagan
  2. Read my book: "God, Man, and the Universe — An Holistic Perspective," available at the bookstore as an ebook at http://www.drtauraso.com. t covers among other things the Laws governing the three realms of reality: Physical, Mental, and Spiritual.

    -Tauraso
  3. well–that was ONE non article if I ever read one.
    what a WASTE of time to write and read.

    -gary
  4. Unfortunately, for all his great knowledge and insight into the way things work, Albert Einstein refused to consider the God who made them, nor the sin that has caused them to break down, nor the redemptive work of Christ which reconciles us to God.

    -Paul

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