(August 7, 2010 at 9:10 am)solja247 Wrote: Really? Find that rather bold.
Charles Darwin (Agnostic)
Stephen Hawking (Agnostic)
Issac Newton (Christan)
Albert Einstein (Pantheist)
Antony Flew (Deist)
Just to name a few of the greatest modern men...
That seems to be a fairly arbitrary selection. Besides, Flew was an atheist for most of his life. Most of the best contemporary scientists and philosophers are atheist, or at least agnostic. Of those you listed, only three subscribed to belief in any supernatural power, and only one subscribed to the extra mumbo-jumbo of Christianity (by the way, he also believed that metal could be turned into gold). All in all, your case isn't especially strong.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
