Einstein letter, set for auction, shows scientist challenging idea of God, being 'chosen'

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7. I know that Darwin struggled and it's unclear where he landed.

There is some information that he became very depressed when he realized that what he was discovering would be a strong challenge to the theism he had embraced. I'm not sure that it was the term atheist that bothered him and tend to believe that he really didn't know and didn't want to be labeled either way in terms of theism.

Again, I reject the notion that agnostic can only be used as a modifier. I think it's a legitimate position. There are prejudices against those that claim theism and those that claim atheism. There is not rational justification for claiming either as the only truth, and no one needs to prove or disprove either.

You can also not prove that there is not intelligent life somewhere else in the universe, but I would find it hard to take the position that we are the most highly evolved critters anywhere.

Whether that more highly evolved life is *god* or not may be semantic and perhaps why even those that believe can't agree.