A couple emails like this:

Hi, Jonah!
Your Corner comment “Einstein’s theory contributed mightily to the forces of secular humanism conservatives dislike” shows that you still have not yet gotten around to reading your copy of Paul Johnson’s Modern Age, because Johnson debunks the confusion of liberals that Einstein’s relativity theory somehow justifies epistemological relativism. If anything, relativity theory supports Augustine’s statement that the world was created with time (cum tempore), because it declares space and time to be inherently linked together, rather than time being a self-existent independent entity (as secular humanists tend to think).

Me: I don’t disagree with any of that. Though it’s Modern Times, not Modern Age. But Einstein’s theories did in fact contribute to relativism as Johnson details. This is a point that often gets lost. Einstein’s ideas may have meant one thing, but they fostered belief in another thing. The gap between what Nietzsche believed and how Nietzsche’s writings were misinterpreted is legendary as well. Darwinism like Einstein’s relativity was adopted by people on the right and the left eager to abuse the naturalistic fallacy. That was my point. I apologize if I was unclear.