Thank God?

I'm a believer of science, not religion

Something popped into my head a few days ago.. I was saying "Thank God for perfume"* and I got to thinking why do we say 'Thank God' when we're grateful for things? I would say I'm agnostic bordering on atheist if I'm being honest. Ya sure, I'd go to mass most Sundays but it's not really for religious purposes. It is so that my mom doesn't have to go alone all the time. I'm a believer of science, not religion. I've taken to saying 'Thank Jebus' lately though :P

In the perfect world, instead of saying 'Thank God for...', we should be saying 'Thank [inventor] for...'. It wasn't God that made the things we are grateful for (if you want to believe he did, then carry on believing that mumbo-jumbo), but an innovative person.

So, saying all this, here is a list of who to thank next time you're going to say Thanks to!
(I'm just putting surnames in...I think it sounds better personally!)

Perfume - Egyptians
      So, 'Thank the Egyptians for perfume!'
Aspirin - Hoffmann
Automobile - Benz
Bra - Phelps Jacob
Chocolate - Mayans / Aztecs / Olmecs
Coca cola - Pemberton
Computer - Zuse
Digital camera - Sasson
Elevator - Osis
Fridge - von Linde
Internet - Cailliau & Berners-Lee
Mobile phone - Cooper
Paracetamol - Morse
Telephone - Bell
USB flash drive - Ban, Moran & Ogdan
Vaccines - Pasteur

*

And before you go thinking I'm a smelly cow for being grateful for perfume, here's the story!
Thursday night on the bus down from Cork to Bantry, a kid was getting sick the whole way down. The following morning, we had the same bus back up to Cork.... and it hadn't been cleaned. So it STANK of stale vomit!  Luckily I had a scarf on and a small bottle of perfume in my bag. So I doused my scarf with perfume and inhaled that the whole way up willing myself to NOT vomit....!!

THANK THE EGYPTIANS FOR PERFUME!!

Basically me on the bus trying not to vomit!