DU Video: GOPer TN State Rep Niceley Believes That Albert Einstein Was A Christian Creationist

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GOPer TN State Rep Niceley Believes That Albert Einstein Was A Christian Creationist
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x580163

4/7/11: Tennessee Tea Party legislator state Rep. Frank Nicely argues in favor of a bill to encourage public schools to "teach the controversy" for evolution and climate change. He falsely attributes a mangled version of a 16th-century Francis Bacon quotation to humanist Jew, Albert Einstein.



Rep. Frank S. Niceley
http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/house/members/h17.html
R-Knoxville
District 17 — Part of Jefferson and Knox Counties

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1. In an autobiographical essay published in 1949, Einstein told of his loss of faith as a child

In an autobiographical essay published in 1949, Einstein told of his loss of faith as a child:
“...through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking, coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies.” (in Paul Schilpp, ed. Albert Einstein, Philosopher-Scientist, Open Court, 1949, p. 5)