Este es un articulo sobre el pensamiento de Einstein sobre la intervención de Dios en la evolución del Universo, su postura sobre la biblia, nos deja en claro el pensamiento del genio del siglo xx.
Assertion: Einstein believed evolution was impossible; he said "God does not play dice."
Mark I. Vuletic
Last updated 30 May 2008
Analysis
Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
(i) Although Einstein did indeed say that God does not play dice, his statement had nothing to do with evolution. Einstein was reacting to the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics as posited in the standard interpretation of the theory by such physicists as Niels Bohr (Bohr, incidentally, responded that Einstein should stop telling God what to do). Evolution, however, is compatible with any interpretation of quantum mechanics, whether deterministic or indeterministic, so Einstein's words by no means imply a denial of the evolution.
(ii) Far from making him a creationist, Einstein's conviction that "God does not play dice" was the basis for an equal conviction on his part that no god intervenes in the history of the universe. Einstein explained that
the man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation cannot for a moment entertain the idea of a being who interferes in the course of events — provided, of course, that he takes the hypothesis of causality really seriously. He has no use for the religion of fear and equality for social or moral religion. (As quoted in Jammer 1999:80)
Acceptance of a god who never interferes in the course of events obviously is inconsistent with acceptance of creationism.
(iii) Incidentally, Einstein went so far as to declare that
The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. (As quoted in Jammer 1999:121).
Although he did not consider himself an atheist, Einstein would thus have qualified as a heretic by the lights of virtually every creationist who has ever lived. As Einstein declared, in response to a rabbi who asked him directly whether or not he believed in God:
I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists...not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings. (As quoted in Clark 1971:502)
A letter from Einstein to philosopher Eric Gutkind leaves no doubt about Einstein's stance on the accuracy of the Bible:
The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.
Creationists had best think twice before trying to enlist Einstein's authority on behalf of their own views.
References
Clark RW. 1971. Einstein: The Life and Times. New York: Avon Books.
Jammer M. 1999. Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
