Henry the Navigator.

I agree RobP, It is impossible to defiine the 'Man of the Second Millenium' (and why just Man, I ask?)
Lets not forget women like Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie for their benefits to mankiind. And what about development of art, music, literature, film? Where would we be without people like Picasso, Steinbeck or even MJ?!

Perhaps it would be better to create a top 100 'Person of the Second Millenium' lists in a variety of categories? So for example benefits to science, medicine, art, human rights (where would we be without Martin Luther King?, technology etc etc!

Mikk you twit, if someone tried to invent electricity now it would be illegal and considered highly dangerous. What it did was stop us lazy buggers from finding something better.

But anyways… Einstein said cool stuff so he should have it:

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

But yeah… I didn’t meet EVERYONE before 2001 so really can’t decide.
The Pied Piper

Brilliant flanking move, StevenLMeyer! Three discussions about evolution up and running at the one time. You don't have to be Einstien to see what you have done. It will be interesting to see how the discussion evolves. Whilst we undoubtedly have the space, do we have the time in this continuum? Will time dilate for us, I wonder?

Love your focus on runners-up.

Brilliant, too, your up-front breaching of Godwin's Law. Saves a lot of time and slagging. Gave me the gefreiter of my life to see it right at the point of natural focus on the screen. What a shame we didn't get him at Frommelles.

I have to second (there you go again, time comes into it all the time) Agronomist's nomination:

Henry the Navigator.

An honourable mention to one of Henry's disciples, Cristovao de Mendonca, c.1521.

Another honourable mention, John Harrison, inventor of the chronometer. For measuring time accurately.

Year of the millenium? 1521, for a variety of reasons.

Singer/song of the millenium? Cindy Lauper, "Time after time".

Must go now. All I have time for. Congratulations once again.

PS Hope things are not too slow in the practice at the moment.

PPS The boat of the millenium, the Beagle, without which Darwin would not have been able to dog his theory down.

I'm glad you all like this thread.

Examinator, RobP, Robby22, Pied Piper

When deciding on Darwin I imagined the following thought experiment.

Takes four groups of 100 bright final year schoolchildren from each of the China, Europe,Indonesia and the US. Would more than two thirds of the children in each group have heard of the man or his achievements?

I think among bright schoolchildren Darwin passes that test. Darwin is known across three major cultures, Western, Confucian and Muslim. With respect to you all I don’t think any of the people you've proposed can meet that test.

Of course you can argue that I don’t know that Darwin could pass that test either. I'm just guessing.

True. But I think it is a plausible guess.

In the US and across the Muslim world people are not fighting the "Henry the Navigator" or "Florence Nightingale" wars. But they are passionate about Darwin.

Examinator, I suggest that evolution through natural selection changed the way we think about ourselves and what it means to be human in a way that a conflict between Christians and Muslims does not. Religions will come and go; but evolution will be a fact of life for so long as there will be a human civilisation

einstein wrote e=mc2...its gibberish...e stands for energy...einstein states...mass times the speed of light [squared]..=mass...so simplt speaking energy is two times a really big number...but we know the speed of light..thus can state it's.. double the m-asss...with a lot of 0's after it...but essentially its gibberish

this plagerising patent clerk...saw a clock face...or rather the light bounced off it...realised that if he could move at the same light speed...he would allways read the clock at the same time...because thats the reflection the light scatter conveys outwards...lol..at the speed of life...in REAL life it means cccrap..[as the clock keeps moving on...and he dont move at the speed of light..[nothing seen can]

but there is more[i just wasted two hours fruitlessly searching for it...it is a photo of einstein...lol its a slapstick comedy...[really...he made 3 of them...but with his dumb equations..gaining media credance[and the need to build science god heads..to sell the evolution fairytale..all three WERE SUPPRESSED...i only saw the photo years ago in a mens magizine

anyhow the myth building goes on..

here is a quote on how to get science degrees...its the score bias...upon which pas or fail rests...its very revealing....<<..for mentioning..Electricity & Magnetism..score...30..point..for defending..<<..E = mc2 Defense earns...60..points...for..NHS Writing Rubric..=10..lol

from
http://s3-us2.startpage.com/do/highlight.pl?l=english&c=hf&cat=web&q=einstein+hanging+off+a+clock+face&rl=NONE&rid=MBLMPPLOLSTR&hlq=http%3A%2F%2Fs3-us2.startpage.com%2Fdo%2Fmetasearch.pl%3Fstartat%3D10%26cat%3Dweb%26cmd%3Dprocess_search%26language%3Denglish%26query%3Deinstein++hanging+off+a+clock+face%26qid%3DMBLMPPLOLSTR%26rl%3DNONE&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fwgbh%2Fnova%2Fteachers%2Fideas%2F2311_einstein.html&nwwndw=1

also from link...please note who invented what...<<
energy (Michael Faraday)
mass (Antoine-Laurent and Marie Anne Lavoisier)
light (Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell)
velocity - c2 (Gottfried von Leibniz and Emilie du Châtelet)
development of E = mc2 (Albert Einstein) >>...and of course anything equal to the speed of light...comes from his brain drifting somewhere...out there...where the time is allways 6 oclock...lol

to save double posting give some science here
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=3114&page=0

the thread is full of mind numb hynotised a'thiest'ss
who cant explain the science..behind their athiest faithlessness..lol

but its all..a zionist media driven distraction...
pre bomb/bomb iran...bringing on army-geddon..bah humbuggggggeroff
that and promoting the superman/..

zionist/teutionic/bolchovic/jews who rule every facit of human endeavour..thanks to media/guilt..hero making..of frauds...playing their genes..

as promoted in film..and word...look at the commentators constantly promoted as spokesman..in lue of news..that goes as far as suppressing..possably the funniest comedy/comedian..ever...its nearly intelectual../but mostly slapstiche...reportedly