Comment Re:Personality, not brains (Score 1) 443
Heh, what's worse than an (allegedly) off-topic post is a post accusing another post of being off-topic.
Anyway, you're right. He doesn't discount the possibility of a creator, but does repeatedly deny the existence of the "personal God" of modern-day religions:
"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
"Thus I came--despite the fact I was the son of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents--to a deep religiosity, which, however, found an abrupt ending at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived...Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude... has never left me..."