Sunday, October 07, 2007

FreeThoughtAction Hero Of The Day - 10/07/07

Sir Harold Walter Kroto (born October 7, 1939)

According to Wikipedia, Kroto "is an English chemist and one of the winners of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry....

"He now claims to have four 'religions': humanism, atheism, amnesty-internationalism and humourism."

Also born today was Charles Bradley Templeton (October 7, 1915 - June 7, 2001).

According to Wikipedia, Templeton "was successively a Canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, newspaper editor, broadcaster and author....

"In 1957, after a long struggle with doubt, Templeton declared himself an agnostic. His public pronouncement of his loss of faith caused a deep backlash from the evangelical community."