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On 9 Sept, 15:03, NoEinstein <noeinst...@bellsouth.net> wrote in
sci.physics:
> Faith means: "I don't know, but I trust and believe." That is why
> "those of faith" are so resistant to learning the truth.  If they ever
> do learn the truth, they will have no reason to "be faithful" any
> longer.  Religions [Einstein is an on-faith one, too] exist mainly
> because of ignorance and superstition.
>
> Einstein became an icon of intellect (snicker, snicker) because of the
> incomprehensibility of his theories.

The journal Nature publishes similar views sometimes (provided they
come from distinguished hypnotists, not from marginalized heretics):

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050117/full/433218a.html
John Barrow: "Einstein as icon....Einstein restored faith in the
unintelligibility of science. Everyone knew that Einstein had done
something important in 1905 (and again in 1915) but almost nobody
could tell you exactly what it was. When Einstein was interviewed for
a Dutch newspaper in 1921, he attributed his mass appeal to the
mystery of his work for the ordinary person: "Does it make a silly
impression on me, here and yonder, about my theories of which they
cannot understand a word? I think it is funny and also interesting to
observe. I am sure that it is the mystery of non-understanding that
appeals to them...it impresses them, it has the colour and the appeal
of the mysterious."

Elsewhere the same John Barrow, together with brothers hypnotists,
tries to understand the way in which "Einstein restored faith in the
unintelligibility of science":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20061130.shtml
"Then in 1905 Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity predicted that
nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. This then has
dramatic effects on the nature of space and time. It's been thought
the speed of light is a constant in Nature, a kind of cosmic speed
limit, now the scientists aren't so sure.

Contributors

John Barrow, Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Gresham Professor
of Astronomy at Cambridge University

Iwan Morus, Senior Lecturer in the History of Science at The
University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Visiting Professor of Astrophysics at Oxford
University"

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