December 28, 2008

Arguments from Authority

From Zak Attack Productions, I present famous Atheists. According to the Bible these people are fools and do no good...

Isaac Asimov
-Biochemist
-Prolific Science Fiction Writer
-Popularizer of Science

Noam Chomsky
-Professor of Linguistics at MIT
-Created the Theory of generative grammar
-The leading American public intellectual of 2005

Francis Crick
-Co-discovered the sturcture of DNA
-1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

Marie Curie
-1904 Nobel Prize for Physics
-1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Richard Dawkins
-Oxford professor of Biology
-Voted the #1 British intellectual

Daniel Dennett
-Leading Philosopher of the Mind
-Cognitive Scientist
-Evolutionary Biologist

Thomas Edison
-Invented the incandescent light bulb
-among many other things...

Stephen Gould
-Harvard University Professor
-Leading Paleontologist
-Leading Evolutionary Biologist

Massimo Pigliucci
-Ph.D in Botany
-Ph.D in Genetics
-Ph.D in Philosophy
-Professor of Biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook

Steven Pinker
-Professor of Psychology at Harvard
-Director for the Center of Conginitive Neuroscience at MIT
-Time Magazine's top 100 most influential people
-Foreign Policy's top 100 most public intellectuals

Karl Popper
-Most influential philosopher of science in the 20th Century
-Created the concept of "falsifiability"

Carl Sagan
-World Famous Astronomer and Astrobiologist
-Voted one fo the 100 greatest Americans by the Discovery Channel
-1978 Pulitzer Prize Winner

Michael Shermer
-Experimental Psychologist
-Historian of Science
-Founded "Skeptic Magazine"
-Writes for "Scientific American"
-America's leading skeptic

James Watson
-Co-discovered the stucture of DNA
-1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

E.O. Wilson
-Professor of Entomology and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard
-One of America's top 25 most influential people
-Won 2 Pulitzer prizes and the Crafoord Prize

Arthur Miller
-American Playwright

Stephen Hawking
-Theoretical Physicist
-Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge

Ivan Pavlov
-Physiologist, Psychologist, Physician
-Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904


And here are some more "evil doers"....

Susan B. Anthony (Civil Rights Leader)
Lance Armstrong (7 Time Tour De France winner)
Ernest Hemingway (Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize winner)

Marlon Brando (Academy Award winning Actor)
Jodie Foster (Academy Award winning Actress)
Seth Green (Actor)
Angelina Jolie (Actress)
Bruce Lee (Kung-Fu movie star)

Dave Matthews (Singer and Songwriter)
Ian McKellen (Actor)
Julianne Moore (Actress)
Jack Nicholson (Academy Award winning Actor)
Keanu Reeves (Actor)

Adam Savage (Myth Busters)
Joss Whedon (Director, Producer)
Gene Wilder (Actor)
Hugh Laurie (Actor, House M.D.)
Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy, American Dad, etc.)

Katharine Hepburn (Actress)
Penn & Teller (World Famous Magicians)
Christopher Reeve (Actor)
Gene Roddenberry (Creator of "Star Trek")
Steven Soderbergh (Academy Award winning director)

Warren Buffett (Donated $37 billion to charity)
Bill Gates (Donated $30 billion dollars to charity)
James Randi (Creator of the JREF and the million dollar Paranormal Challenge)
Charles Schulz (Creator of "Peanutz")
Mark Twain (Writer and Humorist)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

a really stupid list.
most of the worlds population do not belive in the christian god. nobody says that they are stupid or fools. Not even the bible. In my believe they will get in hell, whats there the use of there good work?
But for sure I'm not against them or there work. The difference between us is that i can respect the people without looking at their religion.

Skeptic 4 Life said...

Thanks for your input. That's why I titled this article my "arguments from authority". I committed a logical fallacy by citing all of these people. This wasn't an argument for or against any type of belief, it was merely an effort in proving that I am not alone in my beliefs. I respect you and all other people despite their beliefs. I just no that most religious ideologies cause more harm than good. So I find it very hypocritical that the religious believe they are better people than the non-religious.

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