If you have over $3 million sitting around in your bank account, you may be eligible to bid on a historic letter written by one of the world’s most famous minds. Albert Einstein’s so-called “God Letter” is currently up for auction on eBay.
A year before his death, Einstein was reading Eric B. Gutkind’s book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt, and chose to pen a response to the author, calling the collection of stories in the Bible “pretty childish” and merely a “expression and product of human weaknesses.” While he dismissed the Bible as foolish, Einstein actually took the idea of God quite seriously, equating the existence of mathematics and the awe-inspiring complexity of the universe as evidence that a higher being could very well exist.
Einstein biographer Walter Isaacson goes into more detail on the scientist’s beliefs on God and religion in the following video below.
Walter Isaacson on Albert Einstein’s God from The Aspen Institute on FORA.tv
