what have they achieved so far and what do you think motivates them to do what they do.....?
2007-09-30 16:15:35 · 9 answers · asked by hey123 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Richard Dawkins, Carl Sagan, Isaac Newton, Bertrand Russell...there are so many!
2007-09-30 16:18:10 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Isaac Asimov
Francis Crick
ANtony Flew
Paul Kurtz
Kai Nielsen
B.F. Skinner
2007-09-30 23:21:05 · answer #2 · answered by Jonathan 7 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Felix Adler, founder of the Ethical Culture Movement. He was motivated by moving further and further away from his Jewish roots. His father and grandfather were rabbis, and I believe the grandfather was orthodox and the father reform. Felix studied to be a reform rabbi, too, but then took the reform concept one step further and founded the first Ethical Culture Society in New York in the late 19th century, as I recall.
2007-09-30 23:21:17 · answer #3 · answered by auntb93 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
http://www.adherents.com/largecom/fam_humanist.html
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. - acclaimed American author of science fiction, as well as realistic and satirical fiction
Isaac Asimov - leading science fiction writer (Jewish); served as president of the American Humanist Association
Philip Jose Farmer - acclaimed science fiction writer
Phillip Adams (1939-) - Australian broadcaster, writer, film-maker, iconoclast; Australian Humanist of the Year 1987.
Paul Kurtz (1926-) - American philosopher, skeptic; founder of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) and the Council for Secular Humanism
Barbara Smoker (1923-) - British humanist activist and freethought evangelist. Wrote the book Freethoughts: Atheism, Secularism, Humanism
M. N. Roy (1887-1954) - Indian political thinker; founder of Radical Humanism
Margaret Atwood - author and literary freedom activist
Brock Chisholm - physician and first Director-General of the WHO (World Health Organization)
Betty Friedan - feminist activist (Jewish)
R. Buckminster Fuller - futurist and inventor (Unitarian)
Julian Huxley - philosopher and first Director-General of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization)
Richard Leakey - anthropologist
Abraham Maslow - psychologist and creator of Third Force Psychology (Jewish)
John Boyd Orr - the first Director-General of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)
A. Philip Randolf - human rights activist
Carl Rogers - psychologist and creator of Client Centred Therapy
Bertrand Russell - mathematician and philosopher
Jonas Salk - physician and developer of the polio vaccine (Jewish)
Margaret Sanger - founder of Planned Parenthood
Andrei Sakharov - physicist and human rights activist
Gloria Steinem - Feminist activist (Jewish)
Karina Allrich - author (as "Karri Allrich"), artist, cook; author of vegetarian recipes
2007-09-30 23:18:30 · answer #4 · answered by Socratic Pig 3 · 9⤊ 0⤋
i wish i could..
hehe xoxox
2007-10-01 00:07:57 · answer #5 · answered by ♥Doll 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nice hair.baha
2007-09-30 23:18:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Just what is it that we do?
2007-09-30 23:18:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler
Krushchev
Lenin
Stalin
need I go further.
2007-09-30 23:18:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 11⤋
no
2007-09-30 23:17:34 · answer #9 · answered by Nels 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋