(continued from Thursday's
"Through the Looking Glass")
"From the grave, Albert Einstein poured gasoline on the culture wars between science and religion this week.
A letter the physicist wrote in 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, in which he described the Bible as 'pretty childish' and scoffed at the notion that the Jews could be a 'chosen people,' sold for $404,000 at an auction in London. That was 25 times the presale estimate."
Einstein did not, at least in the place alleged, call the Bible "childish." Proof:
The image of the letter is
from the Sept./Oct. 2008
Search Magazine.
By the way, today is
the birthday of G. H. Hardy.
Here is an excerpt from his
thoughts on childish things:
"Space: what you
damn well have to see."
— James Joyce, Ulysses