tiger777

Do more research before you start name dropping. Clearly if Einstein believed in some type of supernatural power it wasn't any God in any religion I've ever seen. It's clear many people misunderstand what Einstein is meaning when he uses the oh so loaded word God. He appears to use it to try to encompass the seemingly intelligent properties of the universe, the order and various universal laws that allow for life on earth to prosper.

"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 survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts."

'The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. … The man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation cannot for a moment entertain the idea of a being who interferes in the course of events. … A God who rewards and punishes is inconceivable to him … .'

'During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image. … The idea of God in the religions taught at present is a sublimation of that old concept of the gods. … In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God … .'

'Certain it is that a conviction, akin to religious feeling, of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a higher order. This firm belief, a belief bound up with deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God. In common parlance this may be described as "pantheistic" (Spinoza).'

And this came from a Christian site I think, so there! As for Newton you're correct he was religious.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/crea...1/einstein.asp