>From the esteemed listowner of skeptic:
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Basically, I suspect anyone claiming Einstein on their side -- and
irreligious people do this as often as people defending various religions
-- is not paying as much attention to the context of Einstein's overall
philosophy as they should. Frankly, other than a broadly Platonic
approach and its associated quasi-mystical attitude, I see little definite
about religion in Einstein's writings.
...
From what I've seen, Einstein was a third-rate
philosopher at best, with negligible insight, a boring style, and a point
of view which would have been deservedly forgotten if he wasn't also a
first-rate physicist. Anyone who claims Einstein the philosopher on their
side, even if they accurately represent him, goes down in my esteem.
Taner Edis
While it is true that scientific results are entirely independent
from religious or moral considerations, those individuals to whom
we owe the great creative achievements of science were all of them
imbued with the truly religious conviction that this universe of
ours is something perfect and susceptible to the rational striving
for knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein (Ideas and Opinions, 1954)
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