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Synopsis
"No other work offers as broad an account of Einstein's views on the relationship between science and religion or brings together all of the different facets of the topic in one short, easily accessible account. Einstein and Religion also offers a badly needed critique of some of the many misinterpretations and misuses of Einstein's views. Professor Jammer is a noted scholar, science historian, and philosopher with the credentials to write authoritatively on this subject."--David Cassidy, author of Uncertainty: The Life and Science of Werner Heisenberg
Washington Times - John F. Haught
Even beyond the world of physics Albert Einstein's ideas and opinions command our attention, simply by virtue of the powerful mind that generated them. And so it is more than idle curiosity to want to know what he thought about issues of great importance to his fellow humans. Not least among these, of course, is the question of God. Was Einstein really an atheist, or did he believe in God? What kind of God? Was he perhaps a mystic? If the world is grounded in a transcending "intelligence," as Einstein thought, how does this make him different from a classical theist? Einstein's theological pronouncements have probably generated as much commentary as his skeptical appraisal of quantum indeterminacy. But Max Jammer, a professor of physics emeritus at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, illuminates Einstein's enigmatic relationship to religion with a clarity and detail that no previous study can equal.