[2ndreconmarine]

But he did believe in what is now called "intelligent design."

Dennett is perpetrating a hoax not to mention this fact, that the greatest scientist who has yet lived, believed in intelligent design.

Once again, we hear the opinion of someone who knows precisely zero about science comment about how real scientists think.

Nice try.

But the simple fact is that Einstein never would believe in "Intelligent Design", any more than he would believe in ID's intellectual equivalents of astrology or alchemy.

[Congressman Billybob]

I'm curious why you assume I know "precisely zero" about the scientific process. I was an advanced placement physics student before I turned to the dark side and switched to liberal arts.

I had another dose of the scientific method in the Ph.D. program at American University, 35 years later.

I still recall the class at Yale in which Professor Berringer used the entire hour to solve a series of third-order differential equations to result in the conclusion that E=mc2. It was a neat piece of math. And yes, I do know a bit about the scientific method. LOL.

John / Billybob

[bvw]

Does the phrase "God doesn't play dice with the universe" ring any bells? It infers a deep respect for what is called "ID" on the part of Scientist Einstein.

[Radix]

"But the simple fact is that Einstein never would believe in "Intelligent Design", any more than he would believe in ID's intellectual equivalents of astrology or alchemy."

An even simpler fact is that you cannot possibly know what Einstein would believe given new information or data.

It is one thing to quote the man, another thing entirely to define his potential beliefs.