Atheists, care to take this challenge?

Question

Name me 10 contribution the world received from Atheists.

Basicly, good stuff from you guys :)

Answer 1

Gene Roddenberry (!)
Marie Curie
Susan B. Anthony
Galileo
Stephen Hawking
Bill Gates
Angelina Jolie
Bruce Lee
Nietzsche
Gloria Steinem
Carl Sagan
Douglas Adams
David Hume
Richard Dawkins
Isaac Asimov
Tasmila Nazrin
Billy Connolly
George Carlin
Jodie Foster
Frank Zappa
Katharine Hepburn
Harlan Ellison
Ayn Rand
Robert M. Pirsig
Berke Breathed
Penn and Teller
Janeane Garofolo
Bobby Henderson

Answer 2

Warren Buffet - donated $30 billion (yes, billion) to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Bill Gates, btw, is agnostic.

Douglas Adams - If you haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books (NOT the stupid movie), then you should. You'll be rolling on the floor.

Angelina Jolie - Humanitarian work/adopting kids that would likely have otherwise had bleak futures

Richard Feynman - Nobel Prize for work in Quantum Electrodynamics

There are several atheists in the arts - Jodie Foster, George Carlin, Woody Allen, John Malkovich, Sir Ian McKellen, Julianne Moore, Diane Keaton,Andy Rooney, Billy Joel, Jack Nicholson, etc.

Lance Armstrong - Founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation for people with cancer

Thomas Edison - invented tattoo gun, light bulb, phonograph, radio

Sigmund Freud - regarded as the father of modern psychoanalysis

Several philosophers - Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Diagoras, Democritus, Epicurus

Ernestine Rose (and possibly Susan B Anthony) - women's rights, abolition of slavery

Many, many, many scientists...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_atheists#Science_and_technology
http://www.wonderfulatheistsofcfl.org/Quotes.htm#freud
http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Answer 3

Einstein - Theory of Relativity. Did not believe in a creator god.

Thomas Edison - created the Lightbulb. Didn't believe in god.

Abraham Lincoln - US President. No god there.

Tesla - Invented the AC Current. Without him your house would be dark and we'd still be praying to the sun.

Issac Asimov - author and creator of the Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence.

Charles Darwin - a proponent of Evolution - and no, we didn't come from monkeys

Ben Franklin - a Founding Father of the USA, creator of the Postal Service, first Ambassador of the US to France, creator of the Lightning Rod, The Poorman's Almanac, bifocals.

Frank Zappa, musician, free thinker and anti-censorship activist.

Gene Roddenberry - Creator of Star Trek (nuff said!)

Helen Keller - Blind/Deaf/Mute who became an American Lecturer

James Madison - US President
John Adams - US President

(Speculated) Walt Disney - Disneyland anyone?

Is that enough for you or shall I go on?

Answer 4

Considering your question has already been proven flawed I pose you this:

Name for me 10 contributions the world has received from religion.
(might want to skip over all the wars and genocides...)

Answer 5

(1) Abraham Lincoln
"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."

(2) Benjamin Franklin
"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."

(3) Bertrand Russel
"Religion is based...Mainly on fear...Fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand...My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race."

(4) Charles Darwin
"It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; And freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science."

(5) George Bernard Shaw
"At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world."

(6) Helen Keller
"There is so much in the Bible against which every insinct of my being rebels, so much so that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. I do not think that the knowledge I have gained of its history and sources compensates me for the unpleasant details it has forced upon my attention."

(7) Karl Marx
"The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people."

(8) Leo Tolstoy
"To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege."

(9) Nietzsche
"All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race – before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its God to be truthful and understandable in his communications."

(10) Voltaire
"Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world."

I'm not an atheist, I never will be, and I disagree with all these views, but no one can say atheism hasn't contributed many great intellectuals to the world.

Answer 6

The vast majority of scientists are atheists, so anything that has been invented or discovered in the last few decades is likely to have come from an atheist.

Answer 7

well im pretty sure albert einstine made more than 10 contributions to this world by himself. dont forget thomas jefferson, i think he was pretty valuable... is this a serious question?

Answer 8

This can't be a serious question.
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Answer 9

silly question really wasn't it?