28 Oct 2008
Compromising Science and Religion
COUPLING OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
by Peter McKnight
The Vancouver Sun (Canada), p. a15
October 28, 2008
In May 2008, Bloomsbury auctions announced the sale of a letter by Albert Einstein, in which the famed physicist railed against religious beliefs as “childish superstitions . . . the expression and product of human weaknesses.”
The letter was something of a curiosity, not because it suggested Einstein harboured a certain hostility toward religion, but because the sentiments it expressed seemed markedly at odds with Einstein’s much friendlier public pronouncements about religion, including an exceptionally famous quote about the relationship between science and religion: “Religion without science is lame; science without religion is blind.”
