(April 17, 2022 at 12:57 pm)Quill01 Wrote: Hello again, I am not sure weather to post this in the philosophy section of this forum or religion. The documentary called enemies of reason, slaves to superstition part 1 on youtube by Richard Dawkins makes me a little concerned when Dawkins talks about Universities shutting down all over the country At 42:20 to 44:48. What country is he talking about? It sounds like in the U.K Hopefully its not the whole world.
I haven’t seen the whole video - just the clip you mentioned - so take this with a grain of salt: Dawkins has a tendency towards exaggeration when he moves outside of his field. He doesn’t tell us why university departments are closing, nor does he quantify what he means by ‘all over the country’. Is it two physics departments that have closed? 20? 200?
I find it kind of amusing that he says we should always question authority, but seems to want us to take his word for these department closures without giving us any evidence.
Boru
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