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Einstein was certainly a great intellectual. His adult mindset was not to acknowledge God as a spceific entity, but unlike many today, he had little trouble seeing the overarching design in the physical universe. He once stated his views this way:
"I'm not an atheist, and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations."
from Einstein and Religion by Max Jammer, Princeton University Press
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