[meteorite-list] OT transpermia vs. God vs. Science

From: JoshuaTreeMuseum <joshuatreemuseum_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:52:32 -0500
Message-ID: <769CC9E66A294C08B1981D3862B66064_at_ET>

To provide a bit of clarification to the foregoing....Albert Einstein was
born to into a non-religious Jewish family and as an extremely young child
attended Catholic School for a couple of years; throughout his life Einstein
was an observant Jew.

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That's not true, Einstein was a non-observant Jew throughout his life, like
his parents. He only kept kosher and attended synagogue for a short time in
his youth. He gave up belief in the religious tenets of Judaism at age 12
just before his bar mitzvah.
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Shortly after his 50th birthday, Einstein declares he's not a religious Jew
in an interview with George Sylvester Viereck:
"I am a determinist. I do not believe in free will. Jews believe in free
will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine. In
that respect I am not a Jew."

Read more:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1607298-2,00.html#ixzz1FYXWD1AD

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Phil Whitmer
Received on Thu 03 Mar 2011 11:52:32 AM PST