BMoon
2008-05-15 12:31:40
It seems that Einstein’s beef with a personal God was one that has troubled thinkers for ages past- the dilemma of the coexistence of evil with a good God. This cynical skepticism was a common reaction by many Jews who witnessed the Holocaust. I agree with you, Elizabeth Scalia, that it is tenuous thinking to equate Einstein’s physics skills with his abiltiy to grapple with deep phiosophical-theological problems. I can cook a gourmet meal, sing and play guitar, dabble in Plato and Wittgenstein, but fall apart before a tax form (thank God for my wife.)
For the agnostics who that take symbiotic comfort in Einstein’s genius and his skepticism, please remember that he also was a virulent socialist. Does that comfort you too?
