Go me!

[gridlore]

I just won my second Atheist Quote of the Month contest on alt.atheism!

20) In response to:
> What happens to a society when its children are taught they evolved
> from the slime of some prebiotic soup through random chemical reactions
> in a chaotic, completely unsupervised universe that emerged from a
> chance explosion?

We go to the Moon, create a global information network, eliminate polio
and smallpox, and see freedom spread around the globe.

By: Douglas Berry
Nominated: raven1
Seconded: Harry F. Leopold

I will now do my victory dance.

Comments

[collie13.livejournal.com]

LOL! Yay, you! ;)

[arib.livejournal.com]

Clever. :-)

IIRC, Louis Salk had some sort of religious connection, though.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

Jonas Salk (polio) and Albert Schweitzer (smallpox) were Jewish.
Louis Pasteur (vaccination, heat sterilization) was Catholic.
Edward Jenner (smallpox, vaccination) was Anglican.

[arib.livejournal.com]

I had no idea Schweitzer was Jewish.

I'll admit I don't know whether any of them had any religious leanings besides the cultural ones, though.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Yes, but they were scientists who looked beyond what they had been taught to learn how to challenge these killers.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

Just trying to set the record straight about "Louis Salk"'s religious preferences. Your original challendger would probably be equally pissed that none of the were fundies and only one was a Protestant.

[kat-box.livejournal.com]

Ummmm... unless I'm mistaken and thinking of something else, your comment on eliminating smallpox is incorrect. We can cure it, but it still definitely exists in many 3rd world countries.

[collie13.livejournal.com]

Check out this article: Smallpox-Free for 25 Years: Smallpox Eradication Success is a Cause for Celebration Throughout the World (http://www.smallpoxbiosecurity.org/news_detail.asp?ID=99)

[kat-box.livejournal.com]

Thanks for setting me straight. Hmmm.... Wonder what I was thinking of?...

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, that was *good*.

Gessi