Einstein’s Heroes — biblical creationists

Creation Ministries International ^ | Mar. 16, 2015 | Shaun Doyle

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Einstein’s Heroes — biblical creationists

by Shaun Doyle

There’s little doubt that the most famous scientist of the 20th century was Albert Einstein (1879–1955). Today his name is synonymous with ‘genius’. Most people today would recognize his most famous equation, E=MC2, (though many would be hard-pressed to explain what it actually means!). But even Einstein had his science heroes.

So whom would the great Einstein have admired? They must have been incredible scientists for Einstein to have thought highly of them! And they were. Einstein had pictures of his three heroes of science on his study wall.1 They were Isaac Newton2 (1642–1727), Michael Faraday3 (1791–1867), and James Clerk Maxwell4 (1831–1879).

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"Sadly, Einstein did not share the spiritual convictions of his heroes. Like many in his day and now, he felt free to abandon the biblical God.9 Little did he know that for all his great work he was operating on borrowed assumptions. Newton, Faraday, and Maxwell were not biblical creationists for nothing. They understood that the only reasonable ground for the amazing regularity we find in the natural world is the orderly and unchanging God of Scripture. "

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G.G. Stokes

This is the scientist (Biblical creationist) who is on my personal wall of fame.

[DoodleDawg]

But these three men also had another thing in common—they were all Bible-believing creationists.

And none of them are recognized today for their work on evolution or biology or anthropology or geology. And none of the work they did do specifically deals with Biblical creationism. So I'm not sure why their religious beliefs matter.

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From the article:

“They understood that the only reasonable ground for the amazing regularity we find in the natural world is the orderly and unchanging God of Scripture.”

This truth applies to ALL science.

[angryoldfatman]

So I’m not sure why their religious beliefs matter.

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Haven’t you heard? A TRUE scientist can’t believe in God or in creation!

[Mechanicos]

“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly” Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman (eds) (1981). Albert Einstein, The Human Side. Princeton University Press. p. 43.

“I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings.” Cable reply to Rabbi Herbert S. Goldstein’s (Institutional Synagogue in New York) question to Einstein, “Do you believe in God?”.

“In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views.” Prinz Hubertus zu Lowenstein, Towards the Further Shore: An Autobiography (Victor Gollancz, London, 1968), p. 156.

“I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.” G. S. Viereck, Glimpses of the Great (Macauley, New York, 1930), quoted by D. Brian, Einstein: A Life , p. 186.

“To what extent are you influenced by Christianity?”
“As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.”
“Have you read Emil Ludwig’s book on Jesus?”
“Emil Ludwig’s Jesus is shallow. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot!”
“You accept the historical existence of Jesus?”
“Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.”
G. S. Viereck, “What Life Means to Einstein,” Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929; Schlagschatten, Sechsundzwanzig Schicksalsfragen an Grosse der Zeit (Vogt-Schild, Solothurn, 1930), p. 60; Glimpses of the Great (Macauley, New York, 1930), pp. 373-374.

[Bobalu]

Isaac Newton2 (1642–1727), Michael Faraday3 (1791–1867), and James Clerk Maxwell4 (1831–1879).

True worthies....

[odawg]

It matters because evolutionists claim belief in creationism stifles, stops, scientific thought. Most of the early scientists were Christian ministers.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Very interesting article.

[stephenjohnbanker]

BUMP

[DoodleDawg]

This truth applies to ALL science.

Theology perhaps. But science is a different animal altogether.

[DoodleDawg]

It matters because evolutionists claim belief in creationism stifles, stops, scientific thought.

I couold understand if they were biologists or geologists. But considering the scientific thought that the men are known for has nothing to do with biblical creationism then that statement is ridiculous.

Most of the early scientists were Christian ministers.

Science and theology are often in conflict.

[BrandtMichaels]

True science points to God. Who do you think authored science and all of its laws? The great I AM, God created all, powers all, knows all and reveals only some of his Glory in the here and now.

[Lonely Are The Brave]

This most beautiful system could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

Sir Isaac Newton

[tumblindice]

“He who hid well, lived well.” Renee Descarte

Spinoza was booted from his congregation and condemned with an anathema.

Sub rosa.

[odawg]

“...then that statement is ridiculous.”

What do you mean by that? I don’t maintain that; that is what my professors alleged. Also, some Christian ministers in England were early scientists. Issac Newton wrote more about the Bible than he did science and mathematics.

[DoodleDawg]

I don’t maintain that; that is what my professors alleged.

Then I assume that your professor doesn't consider geology, astronomy, biology, paleontology, or much of physics to be true science?

[muir_redwoods]

Issac Newton made most of his money casting horoscopes, FWIW.

[angryoldfatman]

Science and theology are often in conflict.

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Draper-White nonsense.