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#10 — Richard Dawkins | Outgrowing God

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The Definition of the Atheist Child

Einstein used the word God. Just as a kind of tag for that which we don't yet understand. He said he really said things like but God doesn't play dice with the universe or what I really want to know is did God have a choice in creating the universe? But he put it in God language. It's a poetic way of putting it. An unfortunate one because people out there are only two eager to seize on the word God and assume that Einstein therefore believed in God which he didn't.

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