RE: Hamza Tzortzis
February 5, 2012 at 3:52 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2012 at 3:54 pm by Cyberman.)
(February 5, 2012 at 3:20 pm)Zakir_250 Wrote:(February 5, 2012 at 3:19 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Richard Dawkins is a peer-reviewed scientist and popular author with many best-selling publications to his name. Hamza Tzortzis and William Lane "Two Citations" Craig are mass debating preachers who appeal to the lowest common denominator. I know who I'd trust as a source of information.But what about the video I posted where younger girls knew more about Science than him?
I'm sure that Prof Dawkins would be flattered if this really was the case. It would show that the religionist lobby is losing the fight to cripple the teaching of science in schools. However, this is a summary of your video:
* Clip of Richard Dawkins - a biologist - interviewing Muslim girls from his documentary (which I have seen but the title of which escapes me for the moment) in which Muslim girl recounts a Kerrang verse about saltwater and freshwater not mixing in the sea;
* Clip of Richard Dawkins remarking on his experience of filming the above interview;
* Unnecessary slide showing the verse in question;
* Clip from documentary presented by David Attenborough showing an apparent contradiction to Richard Dawkins;
* Some more slideshow stuff of little to no importance to the point already made.
All it shows is that Prof Dawkins' knowledge of hydrodynamics or whatever may be limited compared with his chosen field. I'm sure he would have 'lost' in a debate with another scientist in the relevant field. Those Muslim girls, like full-fledged apologists such as you and your friend Tzortzis, are denying the reality of the world outside the pages of their holy book. They didn't "know more about science than him", they quoted some poetry that has to be interpreted to make it fit anything real. The point of his own documentary, mined so shamelessly in your video, is that religious doctrine must not be allowed to overshadow the teaching of science and critical thinking - especially the latter.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'