05 Oct '10 11:08

On another forum this poster doctrbill gets the Internet foot in the mouth award of the month.

He said God's chosen people produced nothing to amaze heathen folk (I guess he meant non-Jews). Poster ICANT then produced a list of Jewish Nobel prize winners.

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doctrbill writes:
Perhaps the most persuasive reason to believe Genesis was NOT intended to reveal advanced knowledge is that its creators and target audience, the Jews, God's chosen people, did not, in 5,000 years of chosen people history, produce a single aspirin or roll of toilet paper with which to amaze us heathen folk.
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ICANT responds:
Are you sure about that?

Since Abraham lived around 2300 BC they still got about 690 years to go to get your 5,000 years in.

I guess the contributions of the following

JEWISH NOBEL WINNERS don't count.

0.2% OF WORLD'S POPULATION (16-19 Million Jews)

Literature (13)
1910 - Heyse, Paul
1927 - Bergson, Henri
1958 - Pasternak, Boris
1966 - Agnon, Yosef Shmuel (Israeli)
1966 - Sachs, Nelly
1976 - Bellow, Saul
1978 - Singer, Bashevis Isaac
1981 - Canetti, Elias
1987 - Brodsky, Joseph
1991 - Gordimer, Nadine
2002 - Kertesz, Imre
2004 - Jelinek, Elfriede
2005 - Pinter, Harold

Chemistry (31)
1905 - Baeyer, Von Adolph
1906 - Moissan, Henri
1910 - Wallach, Otto
1915 - Willstaetter, Richard
1918 - Haber, Fritz
1943 - Hevesy, de Charles George
1961 - Calvin, Melvin
1962 - Perutz, Ferdinand Max
1972 - Stein, Howard William
1972 - Anfinsen, Christian B.
1977 - Prigogine, Ilya
1979 - Brown, Charles Herbert
1980 - Berg, Paul
1980 - Gilbert, Walter
1981 - Hoffmann, Roald
1982 - Klug, Aaron
1985 - Hauptman, A. Albert
1985 - Karle, Jerome
1986 - Herschbach, R. Dudley
1988 - Huber, Robert
1989 - Altman, Sidney
1992 - Marcus, Rudolph
1994 - Olah, George A.
1998 - Kohn, Walter
2000 - Heeger, Alan J.
2004 - Ciechanover, Aaron (Israeli)
2004 - Hershko, Avram (Israeli)
2004 - Rose, Irwin
2006 - Kornberg, Roger. D.
[Update]
2008 - Chalfie, Martin
2009 - Yonath, Ada E. (Israeli)

Economics (26)
1970 - Samuelson, Anthony Paul
1971 - Kuznets, Simon
1972 - Arrow, Joseph Kenneth
1973 - Leontief, Wassily
1975 - Kantorovich, Leonid
1976 - Friedman, Milton
1978 - Simon, A. Herbert
1980 - Klein, Robert Lawrence
1985 - Modigliani, Franco
1987 - Solow, M. Robert
1990 - Markowitz, Harry
1990 - Miller, Merton
1992 - Becker, Gary
1993 - Fogel, Rober
1994 - Selten, Reinhard
1994 - Harsanyi, John C.
1997 - Merton,Robert
1997 - Scholes, Myron S.
2001 - Stiglitz, Joseph E.
2001 - Akerlof, George A.
2002 - Kahneman, Daniel (Israeli)
2005 - Aumann, Robert J. (Israeli)
[Update]
2007 - Hurwicz, Leonid (Oldest person to receive Nobel Prize)
2007 - Maskin, Eric S.
2007 - Myerson, Roger B.
2008 - Krugman, Paul

Physiology or Medicine (53)
1908 - Metchnikoff, Elie
1908 - Erlich, Paul
1914 - Barany, Robert
1922 - Meyerhof, Otto
1930 - Landsteiner, Karl
1931 - Warburg, Otto
1936 - Loewi, Otto
1944 - Erlanger, Joseph
1944 - Gasser, Spencer Herbert
1945 - Chain, Boris Ernst
1946 - Muller, Joseph Hermann
1947 - Cori, Gerty Theresa, Radnitz
1950 - Reichstein, Tadeus
1952 - Waksman, Abraham Selman
1953 - Krebs, Hans
1953 - Lipmann, Fritz Albert
1958 - Lederberg, Joshua
1959 - Kornberg, Arthur
1964 - Bloch, Konrad
1965 - Jacob, Francois
1965 - Lwoff, Andre
1967 - Wald, George
1968 - Nirenberg, W. Marshall
1969 - Luria, Salvador
1970 - Axelrod, Julius
1970 - Katz, Bernard Sir
1972 - Edelman, Maurice Gerald
1975 - Baltimore, David
1975 - Temin, Martin Howard
1976 - Blumberg, S. Baruch
1977 - Schally, Andrew V.
1977 - Yalow, Sussman Rosalyn
1978 - Nathans, Daniel
1980 - Benacerraf, Baruj
1982 - Vane, Sir John
1984 - Milstein, Cesar
1985 - Brown, Stuart Michael
1985 - Goldstein, L. Joseph
1986 - Cohen, Stanley
1986 - Levi-Montalcini, Rita
1988 - Elion, Gertrude
1989 - Varmus, Harold
1992 - Fischer, Edmond
1994 - Rodbell, Martin
1994 - Gilman, Alfred
1997 - Prusiner, Stanley B.
1998 - Furchgott, Robert F.
2000 - Kandel, Eric R.
2000 - Greengard, Paul
2002 - Brenner, Sydney
2002 - Horvitz, H. Robert
2004 - Axel, Richard
2006 - Fire, Andrew Z.

Physics (49)
1907 - Michelson, Abraham Albert
1908 - Lippmann, Gabriel
1921 - Einstein, Albert
1922 - Bohr, Niels
1925 - Franck, James
1925 - Hertz, Gustav
1943 - Stern, Otto
1944 - Rabi, Issac Isidor
1945 - Pauli, Wolfgang
1952 - Bloch, Felix
1954 - Born, Max
1958 - Tamm, Igor
1958 - Frank, Ilya
1959 - Segre, Emilio
1960 - Glaser, A. Donald
1961 - Hofstadter, Robert
1962 - Landau, Davidovich Lev
1963 - Wigner, Eugene P.
1965 - Feynman, Phillips Richard
1965 - Schwinger, Julian
1967 - Bethe, Hans A.
1969 - Gell-Mann, Murray
1971 - Gabor, Dennis
1972 - Cooper, Leon N.
1973 - Josephson, David Brian
1975 - Mottleson, Benjamin
1976 - Richter, Burton
1978 - Penzias, Allan Arno
1979 - Weinberg, Stephen
1979 - Glashow, Sheldon
1981 - Schawlow, Arthur
1987 - Müller, K. Alexander
1988 - Lederman, Leon
1988 - Schwartz, Melvin
1988 - Steinberger, Jack
1990 - Friedman, Jerome
1992 - Charpak, Georges
1995 - Reines, Frederick
1995 - Perl, Martin
1996 - Osheroff, Douglas D.
1996 - Lee, David M
1997 - Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude
2000 - Alferov, Zhores I.
2003 - Abrikosov, Alexei A.
2003 - Ginzburg, Vitaly L.
2004 - Politzer, H. David
2004 - Gross, David J.
2005 - Glauber, Roy J.

Source

172 not counting the 8 that receive the Peace Prize.

I think there is some pretty important people in that list.

When you get the egg off your face you can apoligize to God's chosen people.

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