(June 22, 2016 at 5:26 am)Alex K Wrote: A fatal lack of curiosity. It doesn't matter whether the things these apologists spread are provably nonsense. It's a display of piety to say these things in defense of Islam. Whether they are correct apparently plays a minor role. We observe the same thing with Christian creationists. They barely ever change their stories even if they get corrected explicitly. It just doesn't matter all that much whether something is true.
Of course. Anyone buying into such a just-so story is not likely to look past the thinnest reed in trying to hang onto it.
Of course, they don't seem to stop and think how that might appear to nonbelievers. If someone gets such basic knowledge wrong, why in the world would a nonbeliever take their word on a topic much less amenable to factual knowledge?
If someone is ignorant of addition and subtraction, I'm certainly not going to pay attention when they deign to teach me their personal calculus.