(November 2, 2014 at 8:20 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: Nope, theism or a-theism didn't build any of those. The beliefs of people are irrelevant in this case.
But I didn't call them contributions by atheism but by atheists. I agree that the beliefs of the inventor or discoverer in question are (usually) immaterial, but the brute fact remains that the contributions were made by people who happened to be atheists.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson