A letter by Albert Einstein on God fetched $404,000 at auction. The letter is a shot across the bow to any one who ever claims Einstein believed in God:
Einstein consistently characterized the idea of a personal God who answers prayers as naive, and life after death as wishful thinking. But his continual references to God … has led some wishful thinkers to try to put him in the camp of some kind of believer or even, not long ago, to paint him as an advocate of intelligent design.