The Non-Prophets 22.31.3 2023-08-02 featuring Cynthia Cynthia McDonald, Infidel 64, Timothy Bethel and Teo El ATeo
Science 'supersedes' creationism, Einstein tells religious students in newly revealed letter, Life Science via Yahoo News, By Harry Baker, July 21, 2023
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/science-supersedes-creationism-einstein-tells-165250255.html
This was a letter that Einstein sent to a teacher has recently been put up for sale for a hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. A religious studies teacher had written Einstein and asked if he could tell them basically his thoughts on God and how they coexists with science. Einstein responded saying that science does not refute the religious attitude but in a certain sense replaces and supersedes it.
He also said that as long as the stories in the Bible have been taken literally it was obvious what kind of Faith was expected from the readers, but if you interpret the Bible metaphorically it is nothing but stories.
When asked about God in another popular letter, he answered that he believed in Spinoza's God. If you know anything about Spinoza's God that is just a neutral way of saying I don't believe in a God. Einstein was well known for rejecting the idea of a personal God.
I don't think anyone stopped attending church because they learned about Einstein in school for many of us, that was the Bible.
Einstein confirms and reiterates an important point that the goal of science isn't to refute religion as many religious people think. Many religious people see science as antithetical to their faith and as an enemy or something they have to oppose. We see this all the time, apologists accusing atheists or non-believers of scientism, or having faith in things like the theory of evolution.
It just goes to show that religious people often see progress as the enemy. There is a large contingent of people who see such things as a theory of evolution as the devil's attempt to get people to lose faith in God instead of a true verified confirmed factual theory based on scientific evidence.
But people still act as if atheists who stick with the scientific method as if they are using science as a religion. No, science is not a religion and atheism is not a religion.
Nathan Raab is the head curator selling the letter said ”Not only was this letter written Albert Einstein one of the greatest figures and scientists of all times, it speaks to the ongoing powerful debate between science and religion”. There really is no debate at all, this is not a dichotomy. Religion may be literature or even sociological in nature but it's not even remotely comparable to rigorous science. Religion tells stories, science observes and tests to find quantifiable data.
The truth is that whether Einstein believed in 20 gods or no gods, it really doesn't have any bearing on atheists.
It does a disservice to science when they are treated as equals, myths do not deserve a seat at the adult table.
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