A letter written by Albert Einstein Advertised for sale Rap group in Pennsylvania, according to a group press release published July 19.
The letter, written by Einstein on April 11, 1950, was addressed to a group of Jewish students. The letter was written in response to Martha Monk, wife of the famous German Rabbi Michael L. Monk.
Martha Menk wrote the following in her original letter sent in March 1950:
“On behalf of the students of the Lecture Series on Religion, I would like to ask you if you think it is possible for a modern scientist to reconcile the idea of the creation of the world by God, a higher power, with his scientific knowledge?”
In his reply, Einstein wrote that as a scientist he could not believe in the Torah creation story because science “supplies and nullifies ideology.”
According to Einstein, the creation of the universe in the religious sense is strange for someone somewhat trained in scientific thinking, because “everything is applied according to the criterion of causal conditions.”
“However,” he wrote, “if we interpret the Bible allegorically (figuratively), it is no longer clear whether God should actually be imagined as a person.”
The letter is valued at $125,000 (about 43 million HUF). The formerly famous scientist had letters that sold for $3 million.
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