God and the Universe

of physical constants that allow life to exist. These bring existential questions about God’s existence and man’s place in the cosmos. GOD AND SCIENCE There is considerable confusion among people regarding Albert Einstein. Some say that he was an atheist. Some others hold the opposite view. However, by studying various statements by Einstein himself, it is clear that he was not a denier of God. Instead, he had doubts in the matter of the existence of God. In 1997, Skeptic, a science magazine, published a series of letters that Einstein exchanged in 1945 with an officer in the US Navy named Guy Raner Jr. on the existence of God. Raner wanted to know if it was true that Einstein had converted from atheism to theism when confronted by a Jesuit priest with the following argument: A design requires a designer, and since the universe has a design, it must have a designer. Einstein wrote back that he had never spoken to a Jesuit priest in his life but that from the viewpoint of such a person, he was and would always be an atheist. He added that it was misleading and childish to use anthropomorphic concepts in dealing with things outside the human sphere and that all we could do was to admire, in humility, the