Why did some of the greatest minds in history such as Einstein and Newton believe in religious dogma?
Einstein went from being a pantheist, through being an agnostic, ultimately, in the opinion of people who studied his writings and his life, an atheist at the end of his life, although he did not wish to have the label “atheist” attached to him as in that time it carried some baggage. In all cases where he uses the word god it is clear that he uses that word as a personification of natural law. Of course Newton was a brilliant mathematical genius and the father of scientific physics, but it is also clear that the man was barking mad, loco in the cerveza, mad as a hatter. Before you use him as exemple gratia for another argumentum ad vericundian fallacy please read his commentaries on The Book of Daniel: I promise you that you will be appalled and horrified by his religious beliefs.
