richard_dawkins_-_the_god_delusion

A D E E P L Y R E L I G I O U S N O N - B E L I E V E R 15
One of Einstein's most eagerly quoted remarks is 'Science
without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.' But
Einstein also said,
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious
convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I
do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied
this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me
which can be called religious then it is the unbounded
admiration for the structure of the world so far as our
science can reveal it.
Does it seem that Einstein contradicted himself? That his words
can be cherry-picked for quotes to support both sides of an argument?
No. By 'religion' Einstein meant something entirely different
from what is conventionally meant. As I continue to clarify the distinction
between supernatural religion on the one hand and
Einsteinian religion on the other, bear in mind that I am calling only
supernatural gods delusional.
Here are some more quotations from Einstein, to give a flavour
of Einsteinian religion.
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever. This is a somewhat
new kind of religion.
I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or
anything that could be understood as anthropomorphic.
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we
can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill
a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a
genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with
mysticism.
The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems
even naive.
In greater numbers since his death, religious apologists understandably
try to claim Einstein as one of their own. Some of his
religious contemporaries saw him very differently. In 1940 Einstein