Religious believers have quite the love/hate relationship with Albert Einstein. Some quote the physicist's comments about God not playing dice with the universe to support their own views – despite the fact that Einstein himself said, "I do not believe in a personal God." One young-Earth creationist site even uses an Einstein quote in a diatribe against evolution. Now the pendulum is swinging over to hate as Einstein goes the way of Darwin, becoming an unlikely enemy of some on the religious right.
It seems that the folks at Conservapedia – a sort of conservative alternative to the more familar online encyclopedia Wikipedia – are not fans of Einstein's most famous theory, general relativity. In fact, they view it as a far-reaching liberal conspiracy.
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"Indeed, crank Einstein-bashers without any real education in physics are all Nazis at heart. They are also not genuine conservatives." -- Jack Sarfatti
"2. CONSERVAPEDIA: OMINOUS ECHOES OF DEUTSCHE PHYSIK.
Last week I commented about Conservapedia, which was created to counter
the "liberal bias of Wikipedia." As an example, I quoted from an item about
relativity and Einstein. Physicist Don Langenberg, Chancellor Emeritus of
the University of Maryland, who happened to be reading "The German Genius"
by Peter Watson (Harper, 2010), remarked that the Conservapedia position
quite accurately echoes a view expressed in May 1924 by Nobel physics
laureates, Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark in which they compared Hitler
with the giants of science. This marked the emergence of "Deutsche Physik,"
which eschewed relativity and quantum theory, arguing that they were too
theoretical, too abstract, and "threatened to undermine intuitive
mechanical models of the world." Langenberg wonders if it’s possible that
our rabid right might be pushing us toward revisiting the tragic events of
the early 20th century." -- Robert Park