@axemansays, Einstein was Jewish, though not particularly devout; that's why he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 - the purge of "Jewish Academics" put his life at risk and he was brought to the US by colleagues at Princeton, where he remained the rest of his days. He actually refuted the big bang idea at the beginning because he felt it smacked too much of Biblical theology, but changed his mind when presented with Hubble's observations. He didn't like quantum mechanics because it allows definite predictions of all possible outcomes but no way to determine which outcome will happen with absolute certainty in a specific atomic process, and he never did get comfortable with that reality revealed by experiment (that atomic behavior is not deterministic). Einstein had many mistakes in his career, as do all scientists; the key was that there were other physicists around who learned from his mistakes and had new insights as a result. Thus is science a process.