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

From: Darryl Pitt <darryl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 12:28:01 -0500
Message-ID: <CD823448-ADC4-4B9A-85DD-5234ACA3EC2C_at_dof3.com>

I am not going to debate this; for sadly obvious reasons, there exists a bounty of agenda-bent mis- and disinformation---which now includes my previous statement: I should have more circumspectly indicated Einstein was "selectively observant."

 In contemporary Judaism, there is a big difference between "religious" and "observant." But enough of this. All best / Darryl



On Mar 3, 2011, at 11:52 AM, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:

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