"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. 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."
-Albert Einstein in Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas (Einstein's secretary)
and Banesh Hoffman, and published by Princeton University Press
Einstein's remark regarding "
God does not play dice with the universe" was not a statement about god--it was instead regarding
quantum mechanics and is
representative of the lack of knowledge surrounding the subject at the time.
Einstein was in fact an
atheist (http://www.stcloud.msus.edu/~lesikar/einstein/index.html).
Theists often try to use the dice quotation as a means to introduce belief, stating "One of the greatest thinkers of our time was a believer, why aren't you?" It's always a great opportunity to point out their use of the
argumentum ad verecundiam (
appeal to authority) fallacy and ask why they have to use such blatantly
illogical and
underhanded tactics.