OGGOB wrote:
"Never-the-less, I think there is no doubt the man believed in God, in some fashion."
You are correct in some fashion. But you might want to factor into your calculation that what Einstein was referring to was not what you are referring to. Perhaps this will help clarify his belief system:
"I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I - nor would I want to - conceive of an individual that survivies his physical death. Let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egotism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and a glimpse of the marvelous
structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself
in nature.
~ Albert Einstein in The World as I See It
This conclusively demonstrates that while he may, at times have used the word "god" he didn't mean the god of Judeo-Christian-Islamist theology.
