The Historic Conflict of Science and ReligionThe classical Jewish 'Monotheistic Concept of One God', a powerful unifying idea over disparate dark "forces", was an essential

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"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all" - Hypatia ( circa born 350 to 370? - murderedby Christian hands 415 AD )

"The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish - Christian religious tradition" - AlbertEinstein ( 1879 - 1955 )

"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein ( 1879 - 1955 )

"When the solution is simple, God is answering" - Albert Einstein ( 1879 - 1955 )

Thumbnail History of Religions and ScienceRelativity mathematical science doesn't come out of any Jewish or Christian Bible, does it? In fact, nothing really scientific comesout of any bible, does it? Perhaps for the Old Testament there is an attempt at trying to explain the "origin of everything", this couldbe admitted. And the Old Testament is as much a Book of Jewish History as it is about metaphysical ontology. The New Testamentdoes bring forth newer concepts of ethics and human values, which in itself is something worthy for our present day. But none ofthese religious tracts in the final analysis has anything important to say about modern science or advanced mathematics, do they?On the other hand, forget about the Koran, rather that's all about killing or subjugating Jews, infidel and crusader Christians, withthe remainder being less than worthy Hindus, Buddhists, atheists and such. Also as an added insult to the mother religion of Islamand Christianity, Islamic adherents of the Koran speak of Jews as pigs and apes. Although the supreme ignominy for propagatinghistoric anti - semitism does indeed belong to The Roman Catholic Church and The Evangelical Lutheran Church.

[ See: "Vatican Policy In the Second World War", copyright 1946, by L.H. ( Leo Herbert ) Lehmann ( 1895 - 1976 ), Library ofCongress, LC control no.: 46019601, LCCN permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/46019601. As regards The Evangelical Lutheran Churchsee the chapter: "anti - semitism and Special Relativity ( Or, Who was the Very First German Nazi? )", Relativity ScienceCalculator. For further erudition, read "Hitler's Willing Executioners, Ordinary Germans and The Holocaust", by Daniel JonahGoldhagen; and then read down below Einstein's statement on The Holocaust and Europe's Jews, National Archives ControlNumber NNSM(s)-306-EN-8554, Sound Credit: Voice of America Broadcast, December 10, 1945, where an early cure for cancerand other advances in the sciences and mathematics died at Auschwitz owing to Nazism's secular religion. ]

Finally as regards so-called "Crusader Christians", it was the forces of Mohammed's Islam which truly began the first crusadesagainst Christian Europe beginning in the 650s A.D. or thereabouts. It was only until Saturday, October 11th, 732 A.D. when thegrandson of Charlemagne ( Father of Europe, Greatest King of Europe ), Charles ( "The Hammer" ) Martel, and his Frankishsoldiers began the long and bloody turnabout at Poitiers, France, at the Battle of Tours ( aka Battle of Poitiers ) when the IslamicSaracen army of mounted Arabs and Berbers were roundly defeated! Other immediate victories by Charles ( "The Hammer" )Martel against Islamic Saracens occurred at Avignon ( 737 A.D. ) and Corbière ( 738 A.D. ). And notwithstanding the current battlesagainst the darker forces of Islam presently raging today in the East, it was at the Siege of Vienna in 1529 by the moslem Turksunder Sultan Suleiman I, in an attempt to capture the Christian city of Vienna, Austria, that best represented Islam's unremitting andcontinuing desire to conquer Christian Western Europe but who were ultimately defeated by a combined force of Austrian-Germandefenders that Vienna was finally saved on October 14th, 1529. Of course, before Suleiman's final retreat, he massacred his lastremaining German-Austrian prisoners, something not unfamiliar in today's war with the Islamics. The last major defeat for Islamoccurred at the Battle of Vienna when the combined Viennese armies of Poland-Austria-Germany pushed out the moslem Turks atthe gates of Vienna on September 11th and 12th, 1683, and thereby both ended Islamic ambitions in Europe as well as auguredinto existence the Habsburg Dynasty. So speak no longer solely of Christian Crusaders but rather speak equally of those IslamicCrusaders who first began this 1400-year "Clash of Religions"!

But why bring up religion in the context of relativity mathematics? It's because of the sordid history of Judaeo - Christian attempts atsuppression of science and mathematics, although this ignominy belongs primarily with the Roman Church of Western Catholicismsuch as immediately upon Gregor Mendel's death in 1884, the head priest burned all of Mendel's papers in his collection on plantgenetics. Nevertheless in spite of official and sanctioned Roman Catholic suppression of science and mathematics, there werenotable Christian intellectuals even within the Catholic Church itself who pursued and promoted advances in mathematics,astronomy, medicine and science in general [ note: see Monsignor Georges Lemaître ( 1894 - 1966 ), Belgian Roman Catholicprelate, astronomer and relativity cosmologist in Big Bang - Glossary ]. And now imagine if the even darker forces of Islam had wonat Poitiers or Vienna instead of the relatively enlightened forces of Christianity! What today would be the state of science,astronomy, mathematics, medicine, literature, and even aesthetics? Science and mathematics do not after all exist in a cultural andpolitical vacuum, do they? I think therefore you can more than easily answer this question by yourself.

Hypatia and GalileoThe approximate last known head of the Department of Mathematics and Philosophy, Musaeum of Alexandria, part of the Library ofAlexandria, was female mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria ( circa born 350 - 370 A.D., murdered 415 A.D. by Christian Copts ),an outstandingly notable Hellene philosopher, mathematician and astronomer whose murder by fanatically enraged ChristianCoptic mobs was inspired by the leading Christian Patriarch, Pope of Alexandria later canonized Saint Cyril of Alexandria no lessfor his expunging this brilliant non - mystical, non - Christian thinker and ecumenical teacher of Jews, Christians, foreigners andother pagans inhabiting cosmopolitan Alexandria. Hypatia's invention of an improved astrolabe and her subsequent book"Astronomical Canon", a table of star positions for navigational explorers, was subsequently in use by other intrepid sailors andexplorers for the next 1,200 years, all of this in addition to her thirteen books on algebra and another eight on geometry! Herfavorite exhortation to her class pupils and in public lectures was "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is betterthan not to think at all."

Thus during the later time of Catholicism under Pope Urban III ( Milanese born as Uberto Crivelli circa 1120 - died 1187 ) and theinfamous unjust house imprisonment of Galileo Galilei beginning in 1633 by Urban's personal authority given by the "Congregationof the Holy Office of the Inquisition" ( the Roman Inquisition established earlier in 1542 by Pope Paul III ), it therefore seems that incomparison to Galileo Galilei Hypatia was needlessly treated badly by Catholic authority perhaps because of her famously femininebeauty and widely acknowledged philosophical and mathematical brilliance.

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A reconstruction of the Library of Alexandria as imaginedfor the television program "Cosmos" by planetary scientist Carl Sagan

The ultimate demise of the Library of Alexandria and its Hellene scholarship is usually correlated with the Christian murder ofHypatia, stripped naked in the streets of Alexandria with her flesh scourged from her body by Christian hands and fingers whilebeing dragged to her final death by burning alive. The final loss of Hypatia to scholarship and advancement of knowledge markedthe beginning of the end of humanist Greek science and mathematics until it was resurrected in Europe during the Renaissance (roughly 14th to 17th centuries ), the Age of Reason ( late 17th century ), and the Age of Enlightenment ( encompasses the Age ofReason and extends into the 18th century ), all of which the Catholic Church continued to strenuously oppose.

In retrospect, Galileo Galilei got off rather easily indeed!

Pope John Paul II and The Pontifical Academy of Sciences however exonerated Galileo Galilei in 1992, thus finally ending their359 years of ignominious behaviour towards this esteemed mathematician, astronomer and scientist whom Albert Einstein termed"Galileo ... is the father of modern physics -- indeed of modern science".

The Burning of the Great Library of Alexandria and the Murder of 6+ Million Jews

The burning of the Great Library of Alexandria and murder of 6+ million Jews at the instigation of Germany's Nazi - Aryan Religionare brother and sister to each other in the short timeline of history.

From the murder of the littlest Jewish tailor or shoemaker to the University of Heidelberg's murdered Jewish professors who werethrown head first to their deaths from the upper balconies by other German professors and students, the world lost an enormouspotential store of Jewish civilizational knowledge reviling the lost scrolls, manuscripts and books of the Great Library of Alexandria.An early cure for cancer? If Einstein himself had not escaped the grip of Catholic ( never excommunicated by the Holy See! ) Hitler,what would be the present condition of mathematical physics? At an extreme minimum, at least the potential for advances inhuman knowledge died at Auschwitz - Birkenau because of Germany's Nazi - Aryan Religion which in turn had its proto - Naziorigin in the exhortations of German Martin Luther ( 1483 - 1546 )'s religion to kill and burn Jews alive in their homes, businessesand barns.

Philosophic Speculation: What if the present human race consisted solely of an admixture of the Classic Greeks of Antiquity and today's modern Jews of Israel? What then would be the human condition for knowledge and humane progress? In medicine? Inmathematics? In the arts of literature and music?

Einstein Speaks of the Holocaust and Europe's Jews

"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties andagreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and nocountry could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. Weshall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part ofEurope who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives."

Sound Credit: Voice of America Broadcast, December 10, 1945. National Archives Control Number NNSM(s)-306-EN-8554.

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Einstein's "God Letter"

Key Passage: "... The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible acollection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can(for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to dowith the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And theJewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than allother people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from theworst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."

The Full Relevant Text: "... I read a great deal in the last days of your book, and thank you very much for sending it to me. Whatespecially struck me about it was this. With regard to the factual attitude to life and to the human community we have a great dealin common.

... The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection ofhonorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me)change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with theoriginal text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewishpeople to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all otherpeople. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worstcancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them.

In general I find it painful that you claim a privileged position and try to defend it by two walls of pride, an external one as a man andan internal one as a Jew. As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew theprivilege of monotheism. But a limited causality is no longer a causality at all, as our wonderful Spinoza recognized with all incision,probably as the first one. And the animistic interpretations of the religions of nature are in principle not annulled by monopolization.With such walls we can only attain a certain self-deception, but our moral efforts are not furthered by them. On the contrary.

Now that I have quite openly stated our differences in intellectual convictions it is still clear to me that we are quite close to eachother in essential things, i.e; in our evaluations of human behavior. What separates us are only intellectual 'props' and'rationalization' in Freud's language. Therefore I think that we would understand each other quite well if we talked about concretethings.

With friendly thanks and best wishes,Yours, A. Einstein"

source: The translation above is an abridgment of the letter from Albert Einstein to Eric Gutkind from Princeton University inJanuary 1954, where it had been stored in a temperature, humidity and light controlled environment, and subsequently translatedfrom German into English by Ms. Joan Stambaugh.

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Einstein's Original "God Letter"

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"Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that Idon't want to waste my time " - Isaac Asimov ( 1920 - 1992 )

"Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin" - Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

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