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Originally Posted by Livia

Einstein was a Jew.

And actually, the existence of religious scientists is not a myth at all. We have one in the family... I've mentioned him before. A physicist. Of course people on here have said he can't possibly be religious and a Jew because it doesn't fit in with their own opinions. And obviously they know more about him and his beliefs than he does.

Already covered by LT but... Einstein was non-religious. He was Jewish by blood, and at times feigned a vague sort of Christianity (because it was the first half of the 20th century, he was essentially defecting to the west, and Americans at the time were even bigger bible-thumpers than they are now) but he had no religious belief and (in my opinion, quite rightly) thought that it was inconceivably arrogant of humans to believe that they had a simple answer to the mystery of creation.

Religious people likely to falsely claim that he was religious in arguments against religion by misquoting or selectively quoting him, most commonly his insistence that "God does not play dice". The lie / misconception being that he was referring to a defined, abrahamic God, when in fact he was talking about "The Universe", the unknown, the mystery. He had some spirituality, he was not religious.

Also, the argument was in defiance against the randomness of Quantum Theory, and he actually in his later days admitted that he may have been wrong in his insistence anyway. A variation of Quantum Theory is pretty much accepted scientific fact at this point. It's in everyday practical use.