Why are there so many nobel prize winning "fools"?

Question

Does this make the majority of the undereducated bible belt... "geniouses"?

(only a fool says there's no god)

goethe: "book smarts ain't all there is in life"?

well golly, I reckon I misunderestimated yinz

Answer 1

I'm not going to go through and 'edit' the list either but I know that Einstein had a particular distaste for the Jewish or Christian version of God, but still labeled himself a deist. B/c of this and the author including him as some Xian Nobel laureate supporting scientist, that calls the whole list into question
As far as the question goes, Jesus says no one will get to heaven if he calls people fools but then he does several times in the first four chapters. Including Nobel award winner's, there are plenty of very well educated atheists-Richard Dawkins (Oxford & Berkely), Christopher Hutchins (Leys School, Balliol College and Oxford) and Bert Ehrman (Moody & Princeton).
(BTW, I'm in the Bible Belt-I think the problem is that the majority are suffering from heat stroke ;-)

Answer 2

So, for now, just ignore whether or not man induced climate change is real (since it's currently unknown). What Al Gore has done has charged the debate and polarized it. He's taken the discussion on global warming and made it far more fractious (partially due to how false his arguments are). I'm not saying that's a bad thing (I personally enjoy healthy debate), but it's certainly led to a less peaceful environment, not a more peaceful one - which seems kind of at odd with the award. I wonder how much money Gore paid to the Nobel committee....

Answer 3

Al Gore won the "Peace" prize over Sri Sri Ravi Shankar?????? What the heck is going on?

Answer 4

Are you okay?

Those people who have won Nobel prizes could at least spell properly. Unlike you...

Answer 5

Many of the great minds of all time were believers - it takes all kinds, son. Book smarts ain't all there is in life!

Answer 6

In my experience, the people who seem to have the answers for everything have rarely left the county in which they were born.

And their solution to world peace inevitably involved "nuking" someone.

Answer 7

Solly... Einstein was Jewish by culture, not by belief.

Edit: Solly, could you possibly over-react a little more?

Answer 8

you really whipped up the crowd with this one.

Answer 9

because the nobel prize committee has been hijacked and overrun by leftists...

and by the way..."there is no god" ____ fool...

Answer 10

I'll play. Here's my list of non-atheist Nobel Laureates. It's not complete, but it's the best I could find.

Albert Einstein Nobel Laureate in Physics Jewish
Max Planck Nobel Laureate in Physics Protestant
Erwin Schrodinger Nobel Laureate in Physics Catholic
Werner Heisenberg Nobel Laureate in Physics Lutheran
Robert Millikan Nobel Laureate in Physics probably Congregationalist
Charles Hard Townes Nobel Laureate in Physics United Church of Christ (raised Baptist)
Arthur Schawlow Nobel Laureate in Physics Methodist
William D. Phillips Nobel Laureate in Physics Methodist
William H. Bragg Nobel Laureate in Physics Anglican
Guglielmo Marconi Nobel Laureate in Physics Catholic and Anglican
Arthur Compton Nobel Laureate in Physics Presbyterian
Arno Penzias Nobel Laureate in Physics Jewish
Nevill Mott Nobel Laureate in Physics Anglican
Isidor Isaac Rabi Nobel Laureate in Physics Jewish
Abdus Salam Nobel Laureate in Physics Muslim
Antony Hewish Nobel Laureate in Physics Christian (denomination?)
Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. Nobel Laureate in Physics Quaker
Alexis Carrel Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology Catholic
John Eccles Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology Catholic
Joseph Murray Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology Catholic
Ernst Chain Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology Jewish
George Wald Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology Jewish
Ronald Ross Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology Christian (denomination?)
Derek Barton Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Christian (denomination?)
Christian Anfinsen Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Jewish
Walter Kohn Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Jewish
Richard Smalley Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Christian (denomination?)
PART II. Nobel Writers (20-21 Century)
T.S. Eliot Nobel Laureate in Literature Anglo-Catholic (Anglican)
Rudyard Kipling Nobel Laureate in Literature Anglican
Alexander Solzhenitsyn Nobel Laureate in Literature Russian Orthodox
François Mauriac Nobel Laureate in Literature Catholic
Hermann Hesse Nobel Laureate in Literature Christian; Buddhist?
Winston Churchill Nobel Laureate in Literature Anglican
Jean-Paul Sartre Nobel Laureate in Literature Lutheran; Freudian; Marxist; atheist; Messianic Jew
Sigrid Undset Nobel Laureate in Literature Catholic (previously Lutheran)
Rabindranath Tagore Nobel Laureate in Literature Hindu
Rudolf Eucken Nobel Laureate in Literature Christian (denomination?)
Isaac Singer Nobel Laureate in Literature Jewish
PART III. Nobel Peace Laureates (20-21 Century)
Albert Schweitzer Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Lutheran
Jimmy Carter Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Baptist (former Southern Baptist)
Theodore Roosevelt Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dutch Reformed; Episcopalian
Woodrow Wilson Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Presbyterian
Frederik de Klerk Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dutch Reformed
Nelson Mandela Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Christian (denomination?)
Kim Dae-Jung Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Catholic
Dag Hammarskjold Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Christian (denomination?)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Baptist
Adolfo Perez Esquivel Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Catholic
Desmond Tutu Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Anglican
John R. Mott Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Methodist

UPDATE: I'm aware of Einstein's status as not religiously Jewish, but he was NOT an atheist, and so belongs on this list. I'm not in the habit of editing someone else's list, so that is why I provided the link. Take that particular hair-splitting issue up with the book publisher.

If that's the best you can do as a reply to someone else's question, why even bother? My email link is open for people like you, UP.