In your opinion, who is/was the greatest human being of all time?
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Norman Borlaug, an american agronomist who is believed to have saved a billion lives due to increasing crop productions in various third-world areas of the Earth. He died still trying to improve his work in Africa and Asia.
From Wikipedia: During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply.
Later in his life, he helped apply these methods of increasing food production to Asia and Africa.
From Wikipedia: During the mid-20th century, Borlaug led the introduction of these high-yielding varieties combined with modern agricultural production techniques to Mexico, Pakistan, and India. As a result, Mexico became a net exporter of wheat by 1963. Between 1965 and 1970, wheat yields nearly doubled in Pakistan and India, greatly improving the food security in those nations. These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 in recognition of his contributions to world peace through increasing food supply.
Later in his life, he helped apply these methods of increasing food production to Asia and Africa.
Yes, yes yes a thousand times yes. Saxton Hale is the greatest human being of all time.Enigmers said:
Vasili Arkhipov.
This is a man who saved the world from nuclear annihilation.
He was a naval officer who aborted a nuclear attack on the United States.
This was the Cuban Missile Crisis, where if that attack took place, genocide across the planet.
Body counts in the billions. Billions. You owe him for your existence.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov
This is a man who saved the world from nuclear annihilation.
He was a naval officer who aborted a nuclear attack on the United States.
This was the Cuban Missile Crisis, where if that attack took place, genocide across the planet.
Body counts in the billions. Billions. You owe him for your existence.
Here's the Wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov
In response to your first answer. Whether or not you believe the Bible was divinely inspired, fact is, Abraham lived thousands of years before Emperor Qin, and he was promised to be the father of a nation. Moses, who wrote the book of Genesis, also lived well before Qin. Qin lived in 246 BC. That's really late. Even the Greeks thought of themselves as a collective of individuals. Greek city-states influenced America's founding heavily, and America used to be the most influential nation in the world.baboon 101 said:
In response to your second answer. Darwin may have contributed a lot, but this does not make him a great person. He was severely racist, and Hitler's ideas about a master race are directly derived from his theories on evolution. Also, while he contributed some to a wide range of subjects, physicists have created the base of each discipline. As Ernest Rutherford put it, "All other sciences are stamp collecting."
In response to your third answer. Granted, Mohamed did influence human history a great deal. His influence, however, pales in comparison to the influence of one man who did nothing more that travel one tiny section of the Middle East, teaching. His name was Jesus, Latin form of the Hebrew Yeshua. His followers spread, causing a religious revolution in the world that has never been seen before or since, not even bothering to discuss His claims to God-hood. His followers in later centuries also gave birth to the unique movement, known as the American Revolution. (I know that not all of the Fathers were Christians, that is another debate entirely.) The same men also gave birth to a document that was the first of its kind: The Constitution of The United States of America. (That at least one of it's creators were Christians is evidenced by the fact that it only works for a society grounded in Judeo-Christian morals. Proof: America's current state, where most of the Christianity is watered down soft soap that says, basically, the teachings of Jesus are negotiable, the morals don't matter, and we don't care about the Bible anymore, because everyone will end up in Heaven anyway. Anyone who believes America is still the top dog is naive.)
