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| | *[http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/winter-2012/cryogenesis-a-review#.VDHE0RYy5l4 "Cryogenesis: A review"] (Winter 2012). ''Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science''. Reprinted at Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science website on March 11, 2012. | | *[http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/winter-2012/cryogenesis-a-review#.VDHE0RYy5l4 "Cryogenesis: A review"] (Winter 2012). ''Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science''. Reprinted at Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science website on March 11, 2012. |
| | *Barbaro, Valerie (July–August 2011). [http://thehumanist.com/july-august-2011/heaven-for-atheists/ "Heaven for atheists"]. ''The Humanist''. Reprinted at TheHumanist.com website on June 17, 2011.</ref> [[Robert Ettinger]] was an atheist and American academic who some consider to be "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book ''The Prospect of Immortality''.<ref>Multiple references: | | *Barbaro, Valerie (July–August 2011). [http://thehumanist.com/july-august-2011/heaven-for-atheists/ "Heaven for atheists"]. ''The Humanist''. Reprinted at TheHumanist.com website on June 17, 2011.</ref> [[Robert Ettinger]] was an atheist and American academic who some consider to be "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book ''The Prospect of Immortality''.<ref>Multiple references: |
| − | *[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/8658435/Robert-Ettinger.html "Robert Ettinger"] (July 24, 2011). ''The Telegraph'' [U.K.] website/News/Obituaries/Science Obituaries. Retrieved May 1, 2013. "Despite his Jewish roots, he grew up a determined atheist." | + | *[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/8658435/Robert-Ettinger.html "Robert Ettinger"] (July 24, 2011). ''The Telegraph'' [U.K.] website/News/Obituaries/Science Obituaries. Retrieved May 1, 2013. "Despite his Jewish roots, he grew up a determined atheist." |
| | *Klein, Bruce (August 13, 2004). [http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/4112-the-father-of-cryonics-robert-c-w-ettinger/ "The Father of cryonics, Robert C. W. Ettinger"]. LongeCity website/Community/Community resources/Creative. Retrieved May 24, 2009.</ref> [[Isaac Asimov]] was a popular American [[science fiction]] writer and a professor of biochemistry at [[Boston University]]. He was also an atheist.<ref>Asimov, Isaac (Spring 1982). "Isaac Asimov on science and the Bible". Interview with Paul Kurtz. ''Free Inquiry'' magazine. Quoted at [http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/219935-i-am-an-atheist-out-and-out-it-took-me "Quote by Isaac Asimov: 'I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long...'"]. Goodreads website/Isaac Asimov/Quotes/Quotable Quote. Source located by [http://www.adherents.com/people/pa/Isaac_Asimov.html Adherents.com] website.</ref> According to The Cryonics Society, Asimov said of cryonics, "Though no one can quantify the probability of cryonics working, I estimate it is at least 90%..."<ref>[http://www.cryonicssociety.org/aboutcryonics_critics.html "Cryonics and critics"] (2012). The Cryonics Society website.</ref> See: [[Atheism and cryonics]] | | *Klein, Bruce (August 13, 2004). [http://www.longecity.org/forum/topic/4112-the-father-of-cryonics-robert-c-w-ettinger/ "The Father of cryonics, Robert C. W. Ettinger"]. LongeCity website/Community/Community resources/Creative. Retrieved May 24, 2009.</ref> [[Isaac Asimov]] was a popular American [[science fiction]] writer and a professor of biochemistry at [[Boston University]]. He was also an atheist.<ref>Asimov, Isaac (Spring 1982). "Isaac Asimov on science and the Bible". Interview with Paul Kurtz. ''Free Inquiry'' magazine. Quoted at [http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/219935-i-am-an-atheist-out-and-out-it-took-me "Quote by Isaac Asimov: 'I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long...'"]. Goodreads website/Isaac Asimov/Quotes/Quotable Quote. Source located by [http://www.adherents.com/people/pa/Isaac_Asimov.html Adherents.com] website.</ref> According to The Cryonics Society, Asimov said of cryonics, "Though no one can quantify the probability of cryonics working, I estimate it is at least 90%..."<ref>[http://www.cryonicssociety.org/aboutcryonics_critics.html "Cryonics and critics"] (2012). The Cryonics Society website.</ref> See: [[Atheism and cryonics]] |
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| | * Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant shot and killed four other professors in 1992.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/concordia-killer-turns-to-faint-hope-clause-in-bid-to-leave-jail-1.702240 "Concordia killer turns to faint hope clause in bid to leave jail"] (January 25, 2008). CBCNews website/News/Canada/Montreal.</ref> | | * Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant shot and killed four other professors in 1992.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/concordia-killer-turns-to-faint-hope-clause-in-bid-to-leave-jail-1.702240 "Concordia killer turns to faint hope clause in bid to leave jail"] (January 25, 2008). CBCNews website/News/Canada/Montreal.</ref> |
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| − | * A [[British]] university professor was jailed for ten months when convicted of plotting to defraud a hospital trust.<ref>Weaver, Maurice (June 26, 2001). [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1310232/Professor-plundered-research-cash.html "Professor plundered research cash"]. ''The Telegraph'' [U.K.] website/News/UK News.</ref> | + | * A [[British]] university professor was jailed for ten months when convicted of plotting to defraud a hospital trust.<ref>Weaver, Maurice (June 26, 2001). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1310232/Professor-plundered-research-cash.html "Professor plundered research cash"]. ''The Telegraph'' [U.K.] website/News/UK News.</ref> |
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| | * [[French]] [[Marxist]] [[structuralist]] [[philosopher]] Professor [[Louis Althusser]] (1918-1990) killed his wife in 1980 and was afterwards confined to a psychiatric hospital. | | * [[French]] [[Marxist]] [[structuralist]] [[philosopher]] Professor [[Louis Althusser]] (1918-1990) killed his wife in 1980 and was afterwards confined to a psychiatric hospital. |
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| | *On August 7, 2009, the above-mentioned [[Paul Zachary Myers|PZ Myers]] visited Answers in Genesis' Creation Museum in [[Kentucky]] with a large group of students. During the visit, the 52-year-old eagerly climbed atop a saddled kiddie dinosaur meant for souvenir pictures of children 12 and under. To complete his buffoonery, PZ borrowed a cowboy hat.<ref>Multiple references: | | *On August 7, 2009, the above-mentioned [[Paul Zachary Myers|PZ Myers]] visited Answers in Genesis' Creation Museum in [[Kentucky]] with a large group of students. During the visit, the 52-year-old eagerly climbed atop a saddled kiddie dinosaur meant for souvenir pictures of children 12 and under. To complete his buffoonery, PZ borrowed a cowboy hat.<ref>Multiple references: |
| − | *Ham, Ken (August 16, 2009). [http://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2009/08/16/children-and-the-creation-museum/ "Children and the Creation Museum"]. Answers in Genesis website/Blogs/Ken Ham. | + | *Ham, Ken (August 16, 2009). [https://answersingenesis.org/blogs/ken-ham/2009/08/16/children-and-the-creation-museum/ "Children and the Creation Museum"]. Answers in Genesis website/Blogs/Ken Ham. |
| | *Powell, Devin (August 15, 2009). [http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/53237252.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ "A firebrand visits Creation Museum"]. *StarTribune [Minneapolis, Minnesota] website. | | *Powell, Devin (August 15, 2009). [http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/53237252.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUUsZ "A firebrand visits Creation Museum"]. *StarTribune [Minneapolis, Minnesota] website. |
| | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQl2TMrgbM "PZ Myers riding the triceratops at The Creation Museum"] (August 8, 2009). YouTube video, 2:24, posted by eveningcoconut76.</ref> | | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQQl2TMrgbM "PZ Myers riding the triceratops at The Creation Museum"] (August 8, 2009). YouTube video, 2:24, posted by eveningcoconut76.</ref> |