RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 10, 2015 at 6:17 pm
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2015 at 6:17 pm by Mudhammam.)
(January 10, 2015 at 6:08 pm)bob96 Wrote: I don't believe religion stunts science. Newton was a Christian.
22% of Nobel Prize winners were Jews. [1] (Even though Jews comprise less than 0.2% of the world's population)
Christians have earned 65.4% of Nobel prizes. [2]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jew..._laureates
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chr..._laureates
So, anything about their faiths that specifically contributed to progress, or are you just saying that what a man does to squander his time, whether it's beating off to barnyard lovin' teens or a god-man on a cross, doesn't inhibit his genius when he decides to apply it to the real world?
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza