A Timely Repost: Do You Know Why Albert Einstein Left The Berlin Academy of Sciences ???

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. No, and no to your disruptive red herring.

You wrote:

If imagination > knowledge, is then, religion > science? Might make a few heads explode around here.

Your post misses Einstein's point.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." ― Albert Einstein

Einstein was talking about scientific imagination and scientific knowledge, which should be expected since he is a scientist and does not mention religion in the quote.

You introduced a red herring by introducing religion. So I reversed the expectation that your post engendered and posted as I did. Here is a fuller quote which shows the context, to make clear (should be clear enough) that it was nothing about religion:

I believe in intuition and inspiration. … At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. In fact I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Yes, scientific imagination trumps religious "knowledge", which is only faith and voices and is not knowledge at all.

No, religious imagination does not trump scientific knowledge. Religious imagination imagines that man was created magically 6000 years ago. Religious imagination holds women in subjegation and oppression -- not all religious imagination, just most of it.

Scientific imagination subjects itself to the testing and invites being disproved. If it is possible to disprove a theory or show how an observation was mistaken, then it should be done. Religious imagination permits no questioning, wraps itself in robes, and demands respect where little or none is due.

Things that religionists believe such as talking snakes, 76 virgins for each male warrior in heaven, reincarnation, walking on water, and the morality of sacrificing children are myths. Science is far better than religion. Nobody launched crusades on Rome because they believed in Greek earth-centric astronomy. People are not beating up gays around the world because of some scientific belief. The 8 year old girl in Afghanistan sent with a suicide vest by her Taliban brother was sent for religious bigotry, not by science.