Schizophrenia : if they disbelieve science, what’s the problem with Einstein being an atheist?
At her blog on the design of life and other matters, Denyse O’Leary seems to be bored by the fact that Einstein could have been an atheist :
Albert Einstein’s letter coming up at auction: Does it show that he was an atheist? (I think that’s just a publicity ploy.)
This is a reference to the text of Albert Einstein :
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.
The bold part share a striking ressemblance with some parts of the preface of Hegel Phänomenologie des Geistes, by the way.
What is the problem? Well, about 120% of the time of pro-ID people is dedicated to proving that science (I don’t mean just evolution, I mean physics, environmentalism, global warming science, neurosciences, psychiatry, among other) is plain bullshit.
If it is, why be puzzled by the fact that one of the most emblematic figure of science was an atheist?
Because ID want to be considered as a science, and they need to proove that their middle-age beliefs are perfectly compatible with science. So, the fact that great — emblematic — scientists are/were atheists is seen as a defeat of their way of thinking.
You’re right, that’s schizophrenia…
