Albert Einstein
You are going to have to trust me that there is a connection here; in fact a big connection between Einstein and how building kids and families works.
Einstein published his paper on the special theory of relativitiy in 1905. In it, this young heretofore unknown patent clerk shocked the world with the assertions that he made.
It wasn’t until 1915 and his paper about the general theory of relativity that he showed how the properties of space and time precisely explained the forces of gravity, however. Einstein reasoned that gravity could not actually be an attractive force that instantaneously acted on bodies at great distances since special relativity said that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light.
Einstein’s theory had severe implications on the nature of the universe, and so in 1917, Einstein authored a paper titled, “Cosmological Considerations on the General Theory of Relativity.”
Rather than trust his mathematics that said that the universe had to be expanding with time, he added his famous “cosmological constant” so that the equation said that the universe was unchanging with time.
It took a number of years before other mathematicians pointed out Einstein’s error and astronomers were also able to prove with actual observations that the universe is in fact expanding.
Einstein later chided himself for introducing his famous fudge factor in order to make his theory fit (his world view). He called the addition of his cosmological constant “the greatest blunder of my life.”
Here is the point that I want to make. Einstein had a world view of his physics, just like we have our own world views about kids, about families, about life, and about God.
Einstein’s world view was rooted in the fact that he recognized that if the universe was in fact expanding, that meant that it had to have a beginning. And Einstein equivalence a beginning of the universe with the need for a Creator (who he was not willing to accept at the time), and hence the inclusion of his infamous “cosmological constant.”
If Einstein could let his world view affect his mathematics at a time when “political correctness” was all but unheard of, so can we!
If our world view about kids, families, and God is wrong, we too will get the wrong answers in life. And things will seem illogical, without reason, confusing, unfair, unlucky, or just completely random.
If this last sentence characterizes certain areas within your life, I challenge you to re-examine your world view in those areas. Not every path in life leads to heaven any more than every road leads to Disneyland.
