A letter written by Albert Einstein has been announced for sale by the Raab Collection in Pennsylvania, according to the collection's press release published on July 19.
The letter, which Einstein wrote on April 11, 1950, was addressed to a group of Jewish students. The letter was written in response to Martha Munk, wife of renowned German rabbi Michael L. Munk.
Martha Munk wrote the following in her original letter sent in March 1950:
"On behalf of the students of a 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's creation story because science "replaces and supersedes" ideology.
According to Einstein, the creation of the cosmos in a religious sense is foreign to a person more or less trained in scientific thinking, because "everything is applied by the standard of causal conditions".
"However, if we interpret the Bible symbolically (metaphorically), it is no longer clear whether God should actually be imagined as a person," he wrote.
The value of the letter is estimated at 125,000 dollars (approx. HUF 43 million). The famous scientist previously had letters that sold for 3 million dollars.
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