Religious believers have quite the love/hate relationship with Albert Einstein. Some quote the physicist’s comments about God not playing dice with the universe to support their own views – despite the fact that Einstein himself said, ‘I do not believe in a personal God.’ One young-Earth creationist site even uses an Einstein quote in a diatribe against evolution. Now the pendulum is swinging over to hate as Einstein goes the way of Darwin, becoming an unlikely enemy of some on the religious right.

It seems that the folks at Conservapedia – a sort of conservative alternative to the more famiilar online encyclopedia Wikipedia – are not fans of Einstein’s most famous theory, general relativity. In fact, they view it as a far-reaching liberal conspiracy.

The website TPMMuckraker recently drew attention to a page on the site titled ‘Counterexamples to relativity’. It says: ‘The theory of relativity is a mathematical system that allows no exceptions. It is heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world.’

In a footnote, this comment is followed up by: ‘Virtually no one who is taught and believes relativity continues to read the Bible, a book […]