Einstein, God and Mankind

Perhaps more than one third of the world's modern population is familiar of Albert Einstein. He formulated the famous but controversial Special Theory of Relativity 1905 and the General Theory of Relativity in 1916. The latter has become the modern tool of Cosmologists at deciphering the mysteries of the universe. It has shown the elegance and mathematical predictability of the universe that anyone who understands it is often left in more profound query concerning the presumed truth of the existence of a personal creator. Scientists are discordant over this line of reasoning. Culture, religion, and subjectivity must have been interplaying in the minds of these workers of science. Were the universe and man undeniably fashioned by a creator described by Christianity, Islam and most of the world's major religions?

Largely unknown to us, Albert Einstein himself was not in accord with the idea of a personal and divine intervention in regards to the beginning and the perceived end of the firmament and everything contained and encompassed by it. In his boyhood though ,he was a devout catholic by which his father often made fun of him with such faith. And in his heyday, Einstein's public life was centered on his revolutionary theory that his religious conviction was relatively ignored by the world's enquiry. Although, the God was never completely absence in his words but only in later life did he give elaboration. In him, God was not the God worshipped by Abraham, of Moses and Mohammed, thus expressive of the fact that he rejected a personal creator as described by the Scripture , the Holy Koran and other major religious writings.

Einstein's profound discoveries regarding the workings of nature have went on to cloud his prior belief in the personal God. For him the complete obedience and an astonishing predictability of the planets circling around the sun without fail for eons, the comprehensibility of the atoms and the universe are collectively- God. Einstein acclaimed by Time Magazine as “Person of the Century” at the close of the recent millennium was no do doubt the greatest scientist after Newton whose far-reaching influence transcend science will continue to pervade our consciousness. His ideas since then have permeated other disciplines such as literature and psychology that could further enhanced the cogency of his influence. No question, his general theory of relativity( a generalized theory of gravitation) has pushed mankind a bit farther in his ancient quest for the understanding of the enigma of the universe. While his special theory of relativity provided us a much profound comprehension of the concept of space and time. Notwithstanding, the tools of science and mathematics so adeptly employed by Einstein, his predecessors, contemporaries and followers are evidently unable to untangle mankind's most fundamental question on life-why we are here? Aside from science, his subjectivity that deserves utmost respect must have been the other reason of Einstein's religious conviction. He must have died an atheist.

The world is forever grateful for his science, but by not embracing his spiritual conviction, the majority of mankind certainly do not deserve to earn ridicules from Einstein himself if he were alive today. Science has indeed astoundingly brought our species to outer space thought impossible a couple of centuries ago. But these Physics, chemistry, biology and all did not even triumphed at creating a single mosquito and never these human endeavor will.