Who do you think is best atheist of our times?

[AFTT47]

Bill Maher is an anti-vaxer.  He shouldn’t even be on this list if we’re taking about people who use media outlets to advocate for science and rational skepticism.

I agree whole-heartedly. While atheism isn't directly linked with science and rational skepticism, it's hard to get there without it. Anyone rejecting it should be considered someone we want to distance ourselves from.

[Natachan]

As I don’t know who three of those people are, I guess I get to choose between hitch, Dawkins, Harris, Mahr, and Krause. Of those, I guess Dawkins.

[Little lunch]

Yeah, I'd say Dawkins too.
But Sam Harris is my favourite.

[T0 Th3 M4X]

Chuck gets my vote. I don't know who he is, but I'm sure that there's an atheists out there with that name, so I guess he can be as good as any.

[GGG]

Bill Maher is an anti-vaxer.  He shouldn’t even be on this list if we’re taking about people who use media outlets to advocate for science and rational skepticism.

well hes atheist and he did like the most popular atheist film - Religulous.

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Bill Maher is an anti-vaxer.  He shouldn’t even be on this list if we’re taking about people who use media outlets to advocate for science and rational skepticism.

well hes atherist he has own tv show,(and he talks about atheism there) and he did  most popular atheist film Religulous.  (there is a glitch on this site that you replys just disapears after you click reply)

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Bill Maher is an anti-vaxer.  He shouldn’t even be on this list if we’re taking about people who use media outlets to advocate for science and rational skepticism.

well hes atheist he has own tv show (and he talks about atheism there) and he did  most popular atheist film Religulous.

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As I don’t know who three of those people are, I guess I get to choose between hitch, Dawkins, Harris, Mahr, and Krause. Of those, I guess Dawkins.

no  you can add people if i forgot something to add (i cant edit my first post)
great additions here is Seth MacFarlane,and George Carlin. (i forgot  about them). maybe Neil Armstrong too (first man in the moon)

[Natachan]

Well if we can add names it gets a bit more complicated. Do we want the ones that make the world a better place? Or just those who work against theism? Because quite frankly I don’t think advocating for atheism is that big a deal. You’re not brilliant because you figured out the earth is round.

There are a couple of YouTube creators I like a lot. But since that medium is necessarily limited I would have to go with Stephen Hawking. Being dead less than a year I think he counts.

[Cod]

I quite like Matt Dillahunty. He can be a bit brash, but he knows the bible inside out.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Yes, but vast majority of meterorites did not originate from the moon or mars, and all those that didn’t come from the moon or mars dates to around 4.56 billion years ago, or just before the earth was formed.  I have an iron meterorite, it originated from the core of a sizeable differentiated body that was later shattered.  So it certainly did not originate from the moon or mars and almost certainly is 4.56 billion years old.  

In any case, no earth rock dates to more than 4.0 billion years.   What you refer to are the ages of zircon crystals contained in younger metamorphosed sedimentary rocks.    That is hugely different from saying the rock is 4.4 billion years, just as a building built 50 years ago from 100 million year old rocks is 50 years old, not 100 million years old.

The existence of 4.4 billion year old zircon does prove there were zircon containing igneous rocks forming on earth 4.4 billion years ago.  These rocks were then eroded into debris, some of the debris were the zircon crystals in them ended up in sediments that later turned into sedimentary rock.  Over time these sedimentary rocks became deeply buried and turned into metamorphic gneiss.   It is these much younger gneiss wth embedded debris from 4.4 year old rocks we found, not actual 4.4 billion year old earth rocks.  

So my meterorite is bonafides 4.56 billion years old.   The oldest actual rock still on earth is only 4 billion years old.  There are relative few rocks on earth more than 2.8 billion years old.  So the chance of your earth rock coming anywhere close in age to 4 billion years is slim.  And its chance being as old as my 4.56 billion year old meterorite is zero.

I accept the correction.  I happily concede that your rock is older than my rock.

Boru