Rational Atheist Hemant Mehta spots the
ultimate dinner party!
"Each of the people in this picture has accomplished more for humanity then any of the guys in that other painting. [...] considering science usually has to drag religion kicking and screaming into the 21st century what exactly did those guys in that other picture do? Oh yeah, they caused a lot of wars."
But who are these humanist heroes, these disciples of reality?
Rational Crank supplies list...
- Galileo Galilei
- Marie Skłodowska Curie
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Sir Isaac Newton
- Louis Pasteur
- Stephen Hawking
- Albert Einstein
- Carl Sagan
- Thomas Edison
- Aristotle
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Richard Dawkins
- Charles Darwin
Intellectual and scientific giants, all! (I have a minor quibble against putting Tyson and Sagan in there, but as popularizers of science, they too rule!-) I personally would have added
Leonardo da Vinci and
Ben Franklin as citizen-scientist-artist-engineers...
1 comment:
I thought David Chalmers would play Jesus.
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