Re: Einstein and Judaism

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From: Torkel Franzen
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 19:42

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In article <emc.721244750@tristan> emc@doe.carleton.ca (Eli Chiprout) writes:

   >Einstein fought against Quantum Theory until his last days because he
   >felt that it completely contradicted God as he understood God to be.

  Einstein didn't "fight" QT, he thought it was incomplete. As for his
reasons, or if you like, philosophical prejudices, he made them clear enough.
They were quite ordinary realistic philosophical prejudices. He didn't
base them on any ideas about God, as far as his actual writings and reported
explanations indicate. Almost invariably, people who imagine that Einstein
proceeded from theology to philosophy and physics base this view on nothing
more than one or two aphoristic formulations.

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Subject: Re: Einstein and Judaism
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