Did Atheists find cures for polio, cancer, suggest evolution, and write about gravity?

Question

In a question by an Atheist, and the best answer chosen by that Atheist, they said that Atheists did all that.
Did they?
Or was it just a delusion by that Atheist?

Re gravity I mean the first to write about gravity.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsCHN5fOqI7pq_ZULsh.IzwgBgx.?qid=20070511143012AAC4HBh&show=7#profile-info-e40e6997c76f0531ce3e3b8826cc915eaa

Darwin did NOT become an atheist, when he wrote The origin of species he was a non conformist Christian, when he lost his faith he became agnostic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

http://www.nndb.com/people/323/000022257/

Answer 1

Fairy blessed sweetie, thanks for the link to the original question, I don't know if they did or not, I'm sure lots of Aethiests contribute to society, but so do Agnostics and Believers.

Answer 2

Possibly.

Polio is viral, so it's prevention (not cure) is rooted in the practice of inoculation (or antibody serum). This practice began in China or India hundreds of years ago. I don't know what those guys believe.

Cancer hasn't been cured but thanks to scientific research treatment has been improved. This wasn't done through divine intercession.

Evolution was suggested by Darwin. As far as I know he was agnostic. He most definitely did not recant on his deathbed. That little story is a myth.

I know that if someone said they were atheist 300 years ago they might be murdered by christians, so perhaps Newton (or others) claimed to be religious for fear of losing his life or livelihood at the hands of the christian church.

You can't deny the fact that because the church was such a powerful political machine that people really weren't given the option of declaring their atheism. Part of that oppression has directly resulted in militant atheism.

Answer 3

How does the Bible clarify electric powered screwdrivers? they are not appropriate with the exception that gravity explains a sprint bit how evolution happened in the international. devoid of gravity, planets does no longer carry mutually and life does no longer have ensue. Einstein defined gravity as a bending of area via mass. Gravity is physics and evolution is its very own technology. they are not based on one yet another as sciences.

Answer 4

Well, I have read a few articles about Jonas Salk but couldn't find mention one way or the other of his religious beliefs. As far as I know, no one has found a cure for cancer. Charles Darwin was emphatically not christian--he believed in and revered nature, which he sometimes referred to as god. As for Newton, well, he didn't have a lot of choice about claiming to be a christian, it was pretty much that or death.

Answer 5

Well being the asker and knowing the answerer I happen to know the answer to your question. And I do expect best answer because I'm the only one who knows the truth here. Nobody else can answer this as acurately as me. It was a JOKE. We were both kidding. He got that I was kidding. I got that he was kidding. It was funny haha.


Now I got a question for you...... Why you going through my old questions?? Looking for something to give me a violation?? That's not nice if that's the case.


BTW here's the link for whoever was asking

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmiN19S91NtjfMsjAvUGsDzsy6IX?qid=20070511143012AAC4HBh

Answer 6

Polio - Jonas Edward Salk developed the first vaccine, he was a humanist (atheist)
Cancer - There is no overall cure yet, many people have written papers on the subject, some are undoubtably atheist (my own father included).
Evolution - Darwin became an atheist in later life
Gravity - This was first suggested by Newton, who was religious, however since then many more people have discovered things about gravity, many of whom are atheists (e.g. Einstein with General Relativity)

Answer 7

While I don't have specifics, I think many early scientists HAD to be atheists, otherwise they would have never even looked for many things. If the scientific community as a whole were religious, progress would be very slow indeed. No one would think past "don't question god's plan".

Answer 8

The first writings about gravity were by the greeks almost 3000 years ago. They may have had their own gods, but not one by those standards set here.

Answer 9

Possibly. It doesn't really matter, though. Religion was near-universal a hundred years back, so most of the great thinkers were theists back then.

More significant is the fact that TODAY the most prestigious scientific academy in the world is almost entirely atheist.

CD

Answer 10

I think various discoveries in time were done by people of various religious and non-religious persuasions. Think for instance of the ancient Greeks, how they laid the foundations for many of our later discoveries and their gods.

I also think that for a large part of the western society and its expansionist nature (think colonizing) it was pretty much 'be christian or be put on trial for heresy'.

Does it really matter?