Posted: Jan 24, 2022 3:13 pm
pfrankinstein wrote:I agree with Einstein. Without it science is lame.
Good for you. I'd be more inclined to agree with him if he had any authority in the matter, and even then only slightly so. It's not like he can provide the universal constant relating the two, nor present the partial differentials describing their co-evolution.
As it happens, Einstein is probably the best example of precisely why science needs to remain divorced from religion. It was religion, his purely emotional conviction that the universe was eternal and unchanging, that led him to what he admitted was his 'greatest scientific blunder'. He went on to supervene this blunder with an absolute howler in his religiously-motivated insistence that the universe couldn't be probabilistic in nature, despite the work of Darwin, Boltzmann and others - HIMSELF INCLUDED - before him showing that it must be so. This religion, he wasted most of his latter career on.
Imagine the work he could have gotten on with had he just shed these religious beliefs and cracked on with finding a way to get QM and GR to play nice...