[HospiceNurse]

If we didn’t ask Einstein what he believed in life, why try to squeeze it out of his dead bones now? Does it even matter? He can not know anymore than the garbage man. He too merely had his opinion.

He was a great physicist though. RIP.

[allmendream]

Your chances of getting an illuminating and particularly insightful answer asking a physicist about theology is about as likely as getting the same asking a theologian about physics.

Brilliance in one endeavor doesn't necessarily translate into every endeavor, especially one taken on in such a cursory and ad hoc fashion.

Or as Heinlein pointed out “expertise in one narrow area doesn't translate into other areas, and yet the narrower the area of expertise, the more likely the expert is to think that it does.”

[betty boop]

If we didn’t ask Einstein what he believed in life, why try to squeeze it out of his dead bones now?

But people did try to "squeeze it out of him" during life. That's the reason we have Einstein on record discussing such matters, illuminating his own view of things.

If you don't think Einstein's cosmological views are relevant to his practice of theoretical physics, then of course you're entitled to your opinion, HospiceNurse! And I'll respect it, too.

[stuartcr]

I like your answer, thanks.