Posterchild’s Hip-Hop Einstein Graffiti and Quotes
December 12th, 2007

My blogmate just informed me about this street art by Posterchild he saw in Kensington Market yesterday. The Darwin fish chain looks pretty fly, but was Einstein really down with evolution?
Some poorly informed netizens may assume the classic Einstein quote "God does not play dice" implies that Einstein thought evolution is impossible. Quite the contrary!
Einstein didn't say much to show his support for evolution, but a hotter topic was whether or not he said anything to show support for Athiesm. Richard Dawkins quotes Einstein in The God Delusion:
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
On the other hand, another well cited quote by Einstein in 1929 said straight-up:
"I'm not an athiest and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. [...]"
A quote, among many others mentioning God spoken by Einstein, which heroic Christianity defenders like Dinesh D'Souza suggest Dawkins purposefully left out of the God Delusion (Link to Chapter 1 where Dawkins talks about Einsteinian religion).
The lack of proper quotation seems to be scandalous at first glance, but if you've read the God Delusion you'd notice that Einstein or no Einstein, the point is exactly the same. 'Ol Steinster's belief was only used to differentiate between a personal god, which Einstein hated, and his belief in the mysteries of nature as a figurative "God", which Dawkins agreed on.
Anyway, all bling aside, I could definitely see a modern day Einstein rockin' the baggy track suit, 2pac style bandanna and some Jordans. Keep up the good work Posterchild!

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