God, Dice, Universe

Einstein's famous statement, "God does not play dice with the universe" entails the propositions 'God exists', 'God and the Universe are distinct', and 'God is not a dice-player'.  Now, each of these is both speculative and disputable.  Thus, even if his intended target, the thesis that some processes are aleatory, is indeed false, it is not by virtue of his assertion.  Instead, any reliance on it is reflective of Physicist overreach, a lapse from Experimentalism into Dogma.  At the same time, the widespread acceptance of his words at face value is indicative of the common misconception of Genius as a possessed general talent, rather than as an unpredictable source of specific inspiration.