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The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
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The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
His name was Linus Pauling:

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/facts/#multiple

and he was an atheist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Paul...sonal_life
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RE: The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
Atheists FTW!
"What a little moonlight can do." ~ Billie Holiday
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RE: The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
Unshared? How selfish. What's wrong with these atheists, that they don't want to share? Tongue
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
Probably most Nobel winners (in the sciences) for the last 70 years, have been atheists.

Here's another great human.

Norman Borlaug. Called "the man who saved a billion lives".

His research in agriculture has saved countless lives. He won the Nobel in 1970.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
Atheists win Nobel prizes because they don't waste their time worrying about stupid fucking fairy tales.

Who has time for that shit?
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RE: The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
(March 12, 2018 at 1:51 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Probably most Nobel winners (in the sciences) for the last 70 years, have been atheists.

Here's another great human.

Norman Borlaug. Called "the man who saved a billion lives".

His research in agriculture has saved countless lives. He won the Nobel in 1970.

Little known fact, the Nobel prize winner who saved the most lives with his Nobel prize winning work is probably Friz Haber, the German chemist who invented chemical fertizers that vastly boosted the agricultural productivity of the world, and on which half of the world today relies to not starve.

Whether he is a great human being is harder to say. He also developed the first chemical weapons and led German chemical warfare efforts during WWI. Ironically he also invented Zyklon A, the agent the Nazis used for genocide via gas chamber, and he was run out of Germany by the Nazis because he was Jewish.
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RE: The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
(March 12, 2018 at 3:04 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(March 12, 2018 at 1:51 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Probably most Nobel winners (in the sciences) for the last 70 years, have been atheists.

Here's another great human.

Norman Borlaug. Called "the man who saved a billion lives".

His research in agriculture has saved countless lives. He won the Nobel in 1970.

Little known fact, the Nobel prize winner who saved the most lives with his Nobel prize winning work is probably Friz Haber, the German chemist who invented chemical fertizers that vastly boosted the agricultural productivity of the world, and on which half of the world today relies to not starve.

Whether he is a great human being is harder to say.   He also developed the first chemical weapons and led German chemical warfare efforts during WWI.   Ironically he also invented Zyklon A, the agent the Nazis used for genocide via gas chamber, and he was run out of Germany by the Nazis because he was Jewish.

Not to derail my own thread, but I have read that the Nazis got their idea of the gas chambers from the State of California switching their method of execution from hanging to the gas chamber, as it was supposed to be more humane.
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RE: The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
Not many muslims win Nobels, either.
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RE: The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
(March 12, 2018 at 10:40 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Not many muslims win Nobels, either.

Nor do blacks, for that matter.
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RE: The only human being to have won 2 unshared Nobel Prizes was an atheist.
Amazingly not a single theist on our boards here has even kudosed the OP let alone commented in this thread.

I sense some jealousy issues arising.
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