Who do you admire and why?

[squidfetish]

I'll second (or third) Dawkins and Chomsky for sure.

Also Bart D. Ehrman for his contribution to new testament study and making a potentially dry and complex topic accessible to the layman.

[Crocoduck]

James Randi is one of the people I admire most. He's a voice of reason not just where religion is concerned but with fake medical and anywhere myth is taught as truth. Even as a Christian I was a good skeptic on most things like Holistic health care. I credit James as the one who first let me apply skepticism toward my views of religion.