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Andy selected a few quotes that show Einstein did not believe in a personal God. Einstein may have been a pantheist, but only to the extent that pantheists can believe in an "underlying intelligence to this universe" -- because from what I can reconstruct from Einstein's quotes, he did believe in something like that.
For example, this quote from an atheist site:
Also,
Theist sites claim that Einstein believed in God, and atheist sites claim that he didn't, and I read the same quotes in both places. Belief in a non-personal God doesn't seem to have its place, and doesn't seem to be well-understood.
Hmm, interesting, thanks! I have to conclude that Einstein wasn't thinking very clearly about the whole thing...