We have to learn the science before any meaningful space travel is possible...
I am waiting, in fact positively eager, for you to change my mind. Please build us a spaceship to visit the stars tomorrow. I'm ready to leave this crazy planet anytime.
...since this means accepting an
infinite universe, whereas the Einsteinian pseudouniverse can only ever be finite - and therefore space travel finite (e.g. already complete with the Moon trips since Mars is too far at 20 lightminutes away

) - and ultimate escape futile.
An anti-Darwin spirit? Really? He says the concepts of events in time are not suspended, albeit complicated. So surely there's room for Darwin and evolution in this complicated Einsteinian space time continuum?
There certainly is room in the
fantasy world of the
Einsteinian space-time continuum. But I mean our physical universe, and that is what Einstein means too, therefore:
No there is NOT. For Einstein there can only be the unrolling of a predetermined plan - the Block Universe of Parmenides - where
chance is denied and everything is absolutely necessary, all worked out to the finest detail in advance. A predestination** without a personal God. Or as Einstein wrote on October 26th 1929 – the very weekend of the Great Wall Street crash:
Einstein oraculizing in Bhagwan orange said:
I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
The invisible piper is a metaphor - though it could be extended to the Horst Wessel Song - a predestination Einstein definitely did not like!
IOW Einstein flatly denied
chance - i.e.
disorder - of any sort in nature, saying that it was only "hidden necessity", the mysterious tune from this invisible piper! A fantasy universe where everything is predetermined absolutely and completely from the Big Bang, and even - this one's for you Seeker and Richard - even the Bayeux Tapestry, sown to its very finest details.
Asking the search engine oracle, it seems that Einstein was undecided about the debate between Darwin and Lamarck, but there is at least one
(poorly sourced) Darwin-favorable quote:
...in 1939, speaking at Princeton Theological Seminary, Einstein famously decried conflicts arising “when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible.” The result of such an insistence, he explained, is “an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against the doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs.”
From the same source there Einstein only added, “
The exact sciences may call the whole world their fatherland". By "exact sciences" he means those subject to mathematical efforts to reduce to them to mere determinism, everything mathematically exactly described from the Big Bang, i.e. mathematical reductionism, mere
quantification as the basis for difference - and therefore biological evolution of the Darwin type, and the
historical sciences generally, is specifically EXCLUDED.
As we have already shown that Einstein is anti-Galileo, that
he is anti-Darwin too follows ineluctably from your poorly-sourced oracle,
Yours faithfully
Claude
**(This primarily for Richard's benefit) And by predestination I mean
absolute predestination not just the Calvinist kind where
only the good are predestined to salvation whereas the bad are lost thru
preterition, i.e. falling by the wayside even though God counts every hair on everyone's head (
Luke 12:7) and even every sparrow (
Matthew 10:29) with JC saying "Ye are of more value than many sparrows" (Matthew 10:31). So let us note that Arundhati Roi would observe that this is
The God of Small Things indeed - only a bunch of sparrow-brained Christians to be saved, since the
Flavian-crony authors think contemptuously of humans along Einsteinian lines i.e. that the difference between humans and sparrows is merely
quantitative
.