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Greetings:<br><br>
I was really surprised at an error in Phil Nisbet's most recent
post. Einstein did not develop quantum mechanics; it was Werner
Heisenberg who did so. In fact, Einstein fought the implications of
quantum theory all of his life. His most famous quip on the matter was
"God does not play dice with the universe." Sadly for
Einstein, the evidence for the truth of the theory keeps piling up year
by year, and physicists still do not have a way, except for the highly
speculative string theory, to reconcile relativity and quantum
mechanics.<br><br>
I've read Phil's most recent response to me, but I've decided not to
engage him on the issues of Hebrew Bible and traditional Judaism.
By the way, I heard the great Jewish literary critic and Bible scholar
Harold Bloom refer to the Hebrew Bible on a "Fresh Air" program
the other night. Does that make him anti-Semetic, Phil? He, too,
like all scholars within the Society for Biblical Literature, separates
the study the Hebrew scriptures from the Rabbinic interpretation of
them. That's all that I'm asking Phil to do, but he does not care
to listen.<br><br>
Nick Gier<br>
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<font size=2>"The god you worship is the god you
deserve."<br>
~~ Joseph Campbell<br>
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