That makes sense to me, as it is difficult to understand how someone with Einsteins insight could have accepted a conventional belief in god.
I don't know the details, but I would think that any such affinity he may have had had more to do with heritage than religion; race, for lack of a better word, rather than religious views.
You guys are strikingly similar to southern baptists. Opposite ends of the spectrum, sure, but everything else is eerily similar. I've had to deal with enough of them, and its funny to find such dogmatic people on the other side.
Science proves that species have evolved and share similar genetic material. Period. Accept that or be silent, because you are just spewing out the most silly claims that are contradictory to saneness, soundness, reality, common sense -- and just because "it is easy to think of" does not make you anything other than a crazy delusional nut that may be in need of professional mental assistance and service attention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationism YEC was abandoned as a mainstream scientific concept around the start of the 19th century. Many scientists see it as a faith position, and regard attempts to prove it scientifically as being little more than religiously motivated pseudoscience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_inerrancy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_of_faith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_the_Bible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_and_history According to Genesis - the age of everything stems from around 5500 BCE or back to 4000 BCE. Before that - there was nothing, according to Genesis. Being "perfect" the Abrahamic religion deity would not make such a stupid error as to falsely create the impression of "older age".
The Zionist political agenda and ethnicity of Albert Einstein surely was not without effect on his religious statements. He made political and religious statements, which relations cannot be disqualified.
The religious texts say the earth and human are only a few thousand years old, and that the creator deity is perfect - does not make mistakes. That means that a mistake like making millions of years of history "part of the creation" would not be perfect. Just because you say it is not relevant - clearly in contradiction to the religious texts - really ties you further down to the loony bin bandwagon going on the emotional rollercoaster. If it wasn't for your straight-jacket you would probably be without arms as you try to launch yourself into the air at the high points and curves. I know your point is that it's faith and not logic, reasoning or thinking that supports creationism. As you can also see, I have made this point myself here on ET much longer than you. However, when you come and try to use logics and science in FAVOUR of creationism - that is when you are going to get your loony ass whooped every time. Think about that a little. Science incrementally favours irreligion and atheism. Period.