Tag: argument from authority
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Einstein’s belief in Jesus? “Unquestionably” Actually, questionably
Albert Einstein accepted the historical existence of Jesus. When interviewer George Sylvester Viereck asked him directly in 1929, Einstein answered: “Unquestionably.” Coming from one of history’s most celebrated scientists, that single word carries enormous rhetorical weight. However, a famous name cannot turn a complicated historical judgment into an unquestionable fact. Most biblical scholars agree that…