Why Einstein Predicted Science & Religion Will Unite

I. The Right Metaphor

“You don’t see something until you have the right?metaphor?to let you perceive it.” —James Gleick

“Science without religion is lame," said Einstein; "religion without science is blind."

For decades now, we've wondered what exactly did Einstein — the very man whose name is literally a synonym for "genius — mean by the above cryptic statement.

Perhaps by taking into account not what, but how we primarily think as humans, that'll help us solve the Secret of the Ages.

Indeed, of each person’s?60,000 daily thoughts, researchers estimate roughly?80 percent occur in pictures.

“See?what I mean?” goes the saying. ??

No wonder Aristotle concluded mastery of metaphors is a sure sign of genius.?After all, a?metaphor reaches for the heavens . . . strips a?metaphysical idea of its “meta-” . . . and then brings it back down to the physical.

Bingo! ?

In short, let’s try a hand at playing the part of Prometheus. Of course, we’re venturing not to defy the gods by stealing their fire, but instead —?we long for a firey metaphysical truth...

...And then, once snatched from the heavens, let’s bring it back down to Earth. ??

II. The Allegory of the Siamese Twins

…Abracadabra!

Once upon a time there lived Siamese twins conjoined at the heart.

Due to the condition, Dr. Necessity split them apart! So each brother had to go thru life with only half a heart. ??

The surgery left one twin with the Herculean half of the heart; the other inherited the half with exceptional vision. Each asset, however, came with a liability.

Attached to the?gift of vision was?paralysis. Stamped on the gift of strength?was?blindness.

The brothers hated each other due to this seemingly unfair trade-off.

Everyone around town knew them by their nicknames “Rel” and “Sci.”

Both had reputations that stretched far and wide:

Rel’s fame grew due to having the greatest vision and Sci’s popularity soared due to having the greatest strength.

And so, quite naturally — each brother strove to?compensate?for his birth defect.

How?

By maximizing the natural advantage!

Sci adopted a “scientific method” to bodybuilding. “What better way to elevate myself above my paralyzed twin,” he reasoned, “than to?become?the most?powerful?body [of knowledge] the world has ever known?” ?? ??

Rel, on the other hand,?religiously?sharpened his vision to a god-like point.?“What better way to elevate myself over my blind brother,” he envisioned,?“than to become?the greatest visionary the world has ever known?” ??

Clearly, such a?split?by the twin brothers — who were first?split at birth — only served to heighten the animosity...

...One morning a fire alarm woke up the twins.

Sci caught whiff of the smoke. ??

Rel caught glimpse of the fire. ??

Unfortunately by the time each recognized the smoke and fire, the entire home had been filled with flames.

As fate would have it, the only place without fire was the room shared by the twins since birth. But clearly this posed a major problem.

Unlike before when?each twin’s strength compensated for his weakness, not this time around.

Sure, the visionary Rel could clearly see the approaching fire — and thereby gauge its distance. Ahh, but unfortunately Rel’s?wheelchair had been burnt to ashes.

Rel was stuck! ??????

As for Sci, though he was more than capable of escaping by foot, his blindness meant he could no more see the exit than could Rel run to it. ??????

This left the twins with only one possible solution.

Fortunately the invisible hand of necessity nudged Sci to sprint in the direction of his brother’s cry for help.

Upon arrival,?Sci lifted Rel onto his massive shoulders. Aww, finally Rel could fulfill his dream of imitating Newton by sitting on a giant’s shoulders.

“Run here, brother!” Rel cried out. “Turn there, dear brother!”

With Rel?in the driver’s seat and?Sci serving as the vehicle,?together they climbed out of the window.

Lo and behold:

The answer to the riddle lay hidden in a partnership.

As the smoke cleared,?Rel and Sci finally embraced.

Both cried tears of joy.

“I guess, one hand ‘watches’ the other,” Rel joked.

Sci smiled. “And one hand ‘lifts’ the other.”

With the heart separated at birth?restored to its original oneness,?Rel’s vision combined with Sci’s strength amounted to a match made in Heaven...

...And on Earth too!

The twins lived happily ever after…

Here lies the Allegory of the Siamese Twins!

The End.

III. The Takeaway Insight

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." —Arthur Schopenhauer

According to legend,?Jesus of Nazareth is said to have?been a Pisces… ??

Perhaps this explains?why?a fish symbolizes Christianity,?why?Jesus fed the masses with “two fish” and?why?his disciples were called “fishers of men.”

Perhaps...

...Armed with such insight, perhaps Einstein (born on?Pi Day) and Genius Turner (born on?Leap Day) have far more in common than merely being born under the sign affectionately known as the “genius/weirdo.”

Perhaps…

As part of the initiation into the mysteries, the wise men of old used to teach the true geniuses of the world carry on silent conversations between the ears and pages alike. ??

Logan Smith went so far as to say what he prizes most “in a good author is not what he says?but what he whispers.”?Hence it’s long been said two people can’t possibly read the same book.

As Emerson once put it:

We are always reasoning from the seen to the unseen.?Hence the perfect intelligence that exists between wise men of remote ages. A man cannot bury his meanings so deep in his book but time and like-minded men will find them.

Plato had a secret doctrine, had he? What secret can he conceal from the eyes of Bacon? of Montaigne? of Kant? Therefore Aristotle said of his works, “They are published and not published.”

In short, Einstein had a secret doctrine, had he?

What secret can one fish conceal from the eyes of another? ??

On many a night, I’ve wondered how Einstein — a century ago — foresaw the coming of Religious-Science...

...Sure enough one night from his grave, Einstein whispered in my third ear: “Religious geniuses?of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of?religious feeling.”

Perhaps the key to unlocking Einstein's cosmic religious feeling calls for becoming an:

individual?intrinsically?inclined to?instinctively?inspect?inwardly? inborn,?invisible?instruction?indispensable to innately inspire indescribable?insights?informally?indicative of ingeniously? intellectual?interpretations of?information!

Armed with the above?superpower of genius, Einstein made the following prediction:?“Science [will] not only purifiy the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism, but also [will] contribute to a religious spiritualization of our understanding.”

Initially a lowly patent clerk, Einstein dared to be great. He contested the immortal Sir Isaac Newton. Scathing criticism ensued.

Of course, Einstein countered by arguing how could critics “punish me for my contempt for authority [when] fate made me an authority myself”?

And it is in such a spirit of truth that I, the lowly student, dare contest the master. After all, millions daily quote Einstein’s famed maxim that “science without religion is?lame; religion without science is?blind.”

Ahem, perhaps the iconic Einstein had it backwards…

…After all, it’s religion who, without scientific legs, is Stephen Hawking.

And science — without religious vision — is Ray Charles.?The cosmic religious feeling can best foresee the goal of life, but science alone has the power to realize it.

Bingo! ?

My painted word-portrait?The Heaven on Earth Code, then,?merely reflects a humble attempt to finish what “the Master of Those Who Know” started.

What more is today’s genius than tomorrow’s common sense, after all? ??

Perhaps future generations will look back at today’s folly — regarding our attempts to split these Siamese twins — as do we now frown upon yesterday’s attempt to place Earth at the center of our solar system.

(*Wink, wink to my fellow Pisces, Copernicus.)

Future generations will embrace a?scientific religion?or Religious-Science.

In short, “The Master of Those Who Really Know” put it best:

“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion.?It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology.?Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.” —Albert Einstein

Bingo! ?

After all,

DOG fo DNIM ehT