Favorite famous atheist?

[maccecilie]

So, who's your favorite famous atheist? Dead or alive.

Mine are Penn & Teller, Richard Dawkins and of course Charles Darwin.  

[MariaEvri]

I dont think Darwin was an atheist. I remember reading somewhere that he had a difficult time publishing his findings because they went against his beliefs

[maccecilie]

I dont think Darwin was an atheist. I remember reading somewhere that he had a difficult time publishing his findings because they went against his beliefs

Yes, I've read that too. But I thought I'd mention him anyway.

[AlP]

Nietzsche is the only correct answer to this question.  

[hismikeness]

So, who's your favorite famous atheist? Dead or alive.

Dr. Gregory House

Hismikeness

[elliebean]

Noam Chomsky

[kenh]

Isaac Asimov
Bertrand Russell
Mark Twain

[SSY]

Francis Galton

[AlP]

Sir Francis Galton FRS (16 February 1822 â€" 17 January 1911), cousin of Sir Douglas Galton, half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. He was knighted in 1909.

Galton had a prolific intellect, and produced over 340 papers and books throughout his lifetime. He also created the statistical concept of correlation and widely promoted regression toward the mean. He was the first to apply statistical methods to the study of human differences and inheritance of intelligence, and introduced the use of questionnaires and surveys for collecting data on human communities, which he needed for genealogical and biographical works and for his anthropometric studies. He was a pioneer in eugenics, coining the very term itself and the phrase "nature versus nurture." As an investigator of the human mind, he founded psychometrics (the science of measuring mental faculties) and differential psychology. He devised a method for classifying fingerprints that proved useful in forensic science. As the initiator of scientific meteorology, he devised the first weather map, proposed a theory of anticyclones, and was the first to establish a complete record of short-term climatic phenomena on a European scale.[1] He also invented the Galton Whistle for testing differential hearing ability.

Is there anything that this man didn't invent or discover. Jesus.

[SSY]

Well, I like him mainly for his mutton chops, but all that other stuff is kinda cool, bit nerdy though. Like I said, mutton chops.

[AlP]

^ Unimpressive manhair.



More.

[SSY]

Ah, but are they atheist?

(also, epic thread derail appears to have happened, this is not the first time I have come across the world beard and moustache championship)

[AlP]

No! They aren't atheists. None of them. Who cares about the derail anyway? I think you already answered the question. As did I. Defend your interest in manhair!

[SSY]

[AlP]

^ I have to admit that this is quite funny.