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chem112:
I scored 253

see oga na first batch screenning?

chem112:
pls is there any chemical engineering aspirant here

baba we many here o

hopefulLandlord:
there's no Buddhist there

of course..i clearly took my time on it...
The few supposed agnostics on it sef each strongly disbelieve in religion,and strongly disbelieve in the afterlife too..(from their own words)
and make no comment of a possible belief..like einstein did(one reason i didnt add einstein)

felixomor:
Warreva, enjoy ur new religion!

whats the name please?

AgentOfAllah:
Well, then you should tag people who believe they can't accomplish things without god, not preach to the choir.

the op is not really for you...
I just copied a cc from another post and laid it...
Just for you(all notified) to view the thread...
Its not supposed to make you---a decided person to feel anything...
Its majorly for the undecided...
You understand me sire?

felixomor:
"Forever" u wish.
Even tho u r writing under religion section, i dont think i will fall into that temptation.
Its ur Thread.
Enjoy

its not a temptation..you made a wrong claim
''by forever remain silenced'' --its on the issue u stated oo
so..since you cant point out one budhist on the post...then remain silenced on it..
Thank you

felixomor:
Well said.
I thought I was the only one who saw both agnostics, budhists, and irreligious gbogbue all lumped up under the umbrella "atheists".
It is well.

oya point out the budhists or remain silenced forever!

AnonyNymous:
I would say nice thread, honestly, I am tempted to. But. . . this thread doesn't serve the purpose we seek: to free people from the shackles of religion. For every Hawking there's a Newton. For every Hubble there's a Flemming. Listing all these out implies that by being an atheist, you could be like them. There are enough religious people who are/were equally intelligent. There are stupid atheists, there are stupid religious people. I'd have preferred if this thread gave an insight to things we could discover and achieve without the guilt of religion, such as stem cell research. The Republicans in Congress are voting heavily against it because they think it'll "make man too powerful, make man play god". If god didn't want that, why did he create the materials we needed for it? With stem cell research we could even do things like growing limbs back! (What 4evergod wanted to do with his telepathic invisible god ). We could be encouraged to solve more problems instead of lazily relying on religion for answers, like we do here in Africa. That's just my own contribution to this thread, with all due respect.

thank you! I clearly understand...
Its just to show our fellow nigerians..that you dont have to be religious to ''shake the world''...
That was my intention starting this thread..

EyeHateGod:
Christians Go Day Roll For Ground Now

lol
esp that alan turing..

AgentOfAllah:
OP, am I supposed to feel accomplished and revel in the achievements of these people because they are atheists? How is this different from what religious people do?

the person below you answered you perfectly bruh..

winner01:
Like you gave the great pieces of art work of atheists on my other thread right?
Dont deceive yourself.

baba i did...
I gave you
works of literature,poem,books,treatises inspired by their atheism...
And i can do it again..
But if you're expecting a ''painting''
you wont get one..because atheists dont have mythical beings in their disbelief...

Mark Zuckerberg came to Naija, we didnt hear shit about atheism. Can you and you friends do that for a month?

in the country where he is...religion is not the way it is here..
My street alone is a ''testimony''

None of you have the IQ of any of those people you listed above, its an insult to even compare yourselves with them. You people spend your life on a religious section mocking religious people and compare yourself with people who really know that atheism is not a thing and focus on making an impact.

do you even know my IQ?

winner01:
Nice research Bro.

thank you!

I can see you lumped up both agnostics and irreligious thinkers, skeptics, spinoza worshippers to your atheistic team to give a seemingly teaming set of acheivers.

[b]pls point out the skeptics and spinoza worshippers..
The link on ''famous skeptics'' i gave...has atheists,deists etc...thats why its stated ''skeptics'' by me..and their affiliations were stated in the site bruh..
2)the agnostics were clearly stated by me..as ironical atheists etc

Good Job, but they pale in comparison to the Number or christian acheivers talkless of other religious sects.

oh no..they dont...
Remember atheists are just a minor sect...

Like ValentineMary said, you left out Albert Einstein and many more like Einstein even though they were outspoken against atheism like Einstein . You left out Bill Gates too.

bill gates is on the op.
Einstein called himself an ''agnostic'' tho admired and seem to deifynature(spinoza God)
but if i go by his words..he's an agnostic

Well, Irregardless of how much you want to be many, I dont think these ones spent all their life on a religion section mocking and dehumanizing christians and religious people. They are not the kind of wild atheists we know today. They worked not talk.

some were put to death for their disbeliefs...some were ridiculed that their disbelief in imaginary friends make them ''nothing'',etc
and of course some debunked religious beliefs..
Just ask me to list them..and i will(from the op)

If you and your brothers had the same mindset of these "great" people, and put it into production like they did, then Nigeria may have been sparked into considering the benefits of atheism

of course we will..
Nigeria has been religious from

Most, if not all are like Mark Zuckerberg who does not share the shitty crusading spirit of new atheists. They work for the betterment of humanity admist the growing religious population.

Ask seun, he did not get to build nairaland by fighting religious people. He worked, not talk. Even though, he has had his fill and feels he should incite young people against religion. We will see where that leads him.

it will lead him to greater heights..
Nairaland's population is ever-growing...
And ive said this before..
Secular humanism is the deal...not atheism

Good Job again bro, but we need your hands not your mouth.

with time...
Remember;The hands cant work when the body is in the hospital

winner01:
You wish they were 1/100 of christian acheivers right.m

if you do the math...as per populace per each group and calculate their achievements...its much more than your so called christians...

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aaronson:
Nice one op but here are notable mentions.


Albert Einstein
Richard Feyman
Prof Lawrence Krauss
Prof Michu Kaku
Socrates (The very first Atheist that ever lived and died for it)
Eddie Griffin (most intelligent comendian)
Hopsin
Action Bronson
Sigmund Freud
Carl Jung
Barrack Obama (closeted Atheist, Politically Christian....he was raised in atheist home)
Neil Dagresse Tyson (smartest black man)
Dead Prez
Rafeal Nadal
Bruce Lee
And My humble self.

i say...if i start to list ehn...
I got tired...
atheists have been fundamental to the universe...

Edenoscar:
i demand to know why Neil deGrasse Tyson is not in that list

they are too much ni i knew i omitted a lot of them..

DoctorAlien:
plaet..ton,

Is the solar system not suited for life? Without the sun, would there be life? That the solar system is an accident is your own opinion, and in no way is it the truth.

Prove that the earth is as old as 5 billion years.

dendrochronology shows the earth is older than your proposed 6k
an 11,000 year old german oak..
Download the pdf...
How do you explain away trees older than your 6k years...
Dated with an accurate dating method...''tree-rings''...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees
And ice cores

Scholar8200:
okay

yep...so i dont think it is on the wrong section!

mhizfunkyB:
like I said believe it or not its d truth also many medical students with two sittings will b disqualified

yes medical with two sittings will be disqualified..we know.. But unibens' utme quota is 9k...they cant go back to eating shvt!

ValentineMary:
Nice post OP but u left out Albert Einstein.

issh!!
I left out the major guy sef

mhizfunkyB:
u shut up u must b silly. u just insult someone randomly without askn questions it seems Ure doomed for failure I post facts not dem-say don't u dare insult me

you can lie for africa oo.. But kwantinue

Scholar8200:
This thread does not belong in this section

oga do you remember this thread?
www.nairaland.com/3299993/what-prominent-achievements-made-atheists

brodalikeme:
Ok, I hear you. I will be waiting for the part two of your write up Titled-Atheist that amounted to nothing in life. Op, you think been opposed to God or denying his existence makes someone smart. Well done eh!

if you know who simone de beauvior is...you'd know her atheism made her become a pioneer of female rights..
no one opposes God...he's not there..thats all

Between, not all of them are atheist or agnostics, check yr facts again.

kindly bring out the one which is not!
#Yimu
be talking shvt you hear?

ammyluv2002:
For God said to Moses, "I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose."



It's just hard work & God's Mercy whether they believe in Him or not #MyViewTho

its a lie...
Its their hardwork maa'm..
Hardwork pays..not belief and hope in a deity...

Other wonderful atheists can be found here...Lists_of_atheists

famous irreligious thinkers

famous skeptics

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#THEPOWEROFATHEISTS

Nobel laureates with multiple Nobel
awards

It is astonishing to note that the four people who have won The nobel prize more than once...have all been ATHEISTS



MARIE CURIE(1867-1934)
''Mother Of Radioactivity''
She is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences;Physics(1903) and Chemistry(1911)
discovered radium and polonium.

.Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994)
''Father of Quantum chemistry''
and a pioneer of ''molecular biology''
The only person to win two unshared Nobel Prizes..

.John Bardeen(1908-1991)
won the nobel prize in physics in 1956 and 1972.
inventor of the transistor.

.Frederick Sanger(1918-2013)
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1958),(1980)
known for his work on proteins;
esp the Amino acid sequence of insulin
(an ironical atheist)

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this is just a few of the many atheists who have walked this earth and done wonderful things to earth...i didnt even mention people like karl max,nietzche and other important scientists,,sports men,,etc...
The fact is that atheists and atheism has been instrumental to the development to the world,
undestanding nature and the universe..despite their small numbers unlike some group of persons who prefer the term ''GOD DID IT'' and who say this life is not worth it..

In Literary Works


William 'Strata' Smith (1769–1839) credited with creating the first nationwide geological map.(distinct excerpt)

In our backyard here

Wole Soyinka (born 1934): Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature..

.Nadine Gordimer (born 1923): South African writer She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991

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Frederick James Furnivall (1825–1910):one of the co-creators of the Oxford English Dictionary..

.Henry Cadbury (1883–1974): a biblical scholar who contributed to the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible..

.Richard Dawkins (born 1941):popular scientist and an Author of books such as the popular best selling--The God Delusion (2006)..

.Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986).Best known as the author of the revolutionary feminist book, The
Second Sex,1949; it paved th e
way for the women’s rights movement of the
1970s and continues to influence today’s activists.

.George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950): He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938).

.Claude Simon (1913–2005):
The 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature..

.Gao Xingjian (born 1940):
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000..

.Albert Camus (1913–1960):
won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957..

.Giosuè Carducci (1835–1907):
The first Italian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.(1906).

.Anatole France (1844-1924):
Nobel Prize in Literature (1921)..

.Pär Lagerkvist (1891–1974):
won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1951..

.Roger Martin du Gard (1881–1958): winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for Literature..

.Pablo Neruda (1904–1973):
1971, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature..

.Harold Pinter (1930–2008): Nobel Prize-winning English playwright,.

.José Saramago (1922–2010): Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.

.
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936):
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934..

.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980),
1964 Nobel Prize in literature that he refused..

.Sam Harris (born 1967):
Neuroscientist and an author of Books promoting skeptism to blind faith.

.Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011):an author of Books promoting skeptism to blind faith

In Modern Science
Alan Turing (1912–1954):the father of modern computer science.and the founder of artificial intelligence..
The fact that you're reading these words on a phone -- the fact that you can send email, text your loved ones in an emergency, do your banking in seconds instead of hours,and anything in relation to computer science and computers that have radically shaped and improved our lives -- is something you owe, in large part, to Alan Turing.


But even more inspiring is the work he did cracking
German codes during World War II.
And helped bl..eepep up hitler
The Turing Award, often recognized as the "Nobel Prize of computing", is named after him.



.Santiago ramon cajal(1852-1934):he is the ''father of modern neuroscience''..he won the nobel prize in medicine in 1996.

.Niels Bohr (1885–1962): Best known for his foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum
mechanics,Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

.Claude Shannon (1916–2001): A mathematician,"the father of information theory", and
was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory.

.Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961):
A pioneer of quantum mechanics and winner of the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics.

.MMarshall Rosenbluth (1927–2003): nicknamed "the Pope of Plasma
Physics"..laid the foundations for instability theory in plasma physics..

.Steven Weinberg (1933–):won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for the unification of electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force..

.Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953)
known for his immense contributions in cosmology;known as "Hubble's law" etc and the hubble telescope is named after him.

.
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1772–1850):He is known mostly for two laws related to gases;Gay-lussac's Law..

.E. T. 'Teddy' Hall (1924–2001): famous for exposing the Piltdown Man fraud and the Shroud of Turin to be a medieval fake.

.Edmond Halley (1656–1742):Best known for computing the orbit of the Halley's Comet..

.
Stephen Hawking (1942–):
Yall know him....

.Peter Higgs (1929–):known for his prediction of the existence of a particle, the Higgs boson, nicknamed the "God particle"..

.Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927): Swedish scientist and the first Swedish Nobel Prize winner..

.James Watt,(1736-1819)
He developed the concept of horsepower and the
SI unit of power, the watt, was named after him..

.Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900–1979):
known for correctly solving andshowing that the Sun is mainly composed of hydrogen, contradicting accepted wisdom at the time..

.Harlow Shapley (1885–1972) was an American astronomer.He correctly estimated the size of the Milky Way Galaxy and the sun's position,,he is the inventor of the concept of a habitable zone..

.Albert Abraham Michelson–-- known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially
for the Michelson-Morley experiment; in 1907 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics(first american to do so)

Inventions and Inventors



The World's Most Important Inventor,Thomas Edison;
He is responsible for some of the most important inventions in the world:they are just too many to list.

.
Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922)
inventor of the first practical telephone..

.Emile Berliner---- known for developing the disc record gramophone (phonograph).

.Frank Whittle (1907–1996):
He is credited with independently
inventing the turbojet engine and is ''the father of jet propulsion''.

.John Logie Baird (1888–1946)
inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic
colour television tube.

.john bardeen ----won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956
with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor.

.Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829)
Inventor of the davy lamp used by miners..
Discovered alkali's and alkali earth metals.

.Wallace carothers(1896-1937):
he is credited with the invention of nylon....

.Joseph Weber (1919–2000): developed the first gravitational wave detectors (Weber bars).

.Joseph-Michel Montgolfier (1740–1810):paper-manufacturer...he
made the first ascent in a balloon (warm air balloon).

.Lee de Forest (1873-1961)
with over 180 patents to
his credit;invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and
amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", He is also credited with one of the principal inventions that brought sound to motion pictures.

Outstanding Breakthrough's in Biological field et Chemical Field
David R. Nalin (1941)
Nalin led the trials that first demonstrated ORT works, both in cholera patients, and more significantly, also in other dehydrating diarrhea
illnesses. Nalin's discoveries have been estimated to have saved over 50 million lives worldwide.
The so called God's couldnt.

.
Fred Hollows (1929 – 1993),
known for his work in restoring eyesight for countless
thousands of people in Australia and many other countries..

.James D. Watson (1928–):
Nobel prize winner and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.

.Francis Crick (1916–2004):
noted for being one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule and a Nobel prize winnner.

.Norman Pirie FRS (1907–1997):discoverer of viral crystallization, an important milestone in understanding DNA and RNA..

.Richard J. Roberts (1943–):
won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.

.George Washington Crile (1864–1943):Formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded in a direct blood transfusion.

.Edward Donnall "Don" Thomas (1920 –2012) Thomas and his wife and research partner Dottie Thomas developed bone marrow transplantation as a treatment for leukemia..

.Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909–2012): received the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF).

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Ian Wilmut (1944–):best known as the leader of the research group that in 1996 first cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell, a Finnish Dorset lamb named Dolly..

.John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971): the ''father of X-ray crystallography '' in molecular biology..

.W. Grey Walter (1910–1977): famous for his work on brain waves, and robotician..

.james Chadwick (1891–1974): English physicist. He won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron..

.Henry Canvendish(1731-1810):
british scientist...discovered Hydrogen.

.Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900–1958): won a Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of artificial radioactivity..

.Sir John Leslie (1766–1832):
best known for his research into heat;he was the first person to artificially produce ice

Studies have proven that atheism has a correlation with higher intelligence as seen in prestigious and well respected sites
www.independent.co.uk and
www.dailymail.co.uk so its no wonder to see that atheists have been and are continually making ground breaking achievements and notable strides in world development..
Scientists tend to be/are more likely atheists or agnostics

a respected scientific body;The National academy of sciencs,US in its survey reported that 93% of it scientists were atheists or agnostics...that should ring a bell....

NOTABLE ATHEISTS AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS OF ATHEISTS


In Software/The Internet world

Seun Osewa(??-)----Nairaland;
The biggest and most visited indigenous platform in Africa...

.Mark Zuckerberg(1984-)---Facebook;
the most popular social networking site in the world.

.Jimmy Wales(1966-)---Wikipedia
The largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet.

.Steve Jobs(1955-)--Apple inc.
The world's largest information technology company(a weak atheist tho).

.Steve Wozniak (1950–): co-founder of Apple Inc..

.Bill Gates(1955-)--Microsoft
The world's largest PC software company(an agnostic).

.Aaron Swartz (1986–2012):Swartz was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the framework web.py and the social news site Reddit,.

.Alan Turing (1912–1954):the father of modern computer science.and the founder of artificial intelligence..
The fact that you're reading these words on a phone -- the fact that you can send email, text your loved ones in an emergency, do your banking in seconds instead of hours,and anything in relation to computer science and computers that have radically shaped and improved our lives -- is something you owe, in large part, to Alan Turing.


But even more inspiring is the work he did cracking
German codes during World War II.
And helped bl..eepep up hitler
The Turing Award, often recognized as the "Nobel Prize of computing", is named after him