I know many of you happily post without reading the article upon which the thread is based, but you end up looking like fools. You commit a mistake common to us all, you assume based on past knowledge of the subject and in this case, as is often true, you assume wrong.
Hitchens has not changed his mind and he did not choose the doctor because of his Christianity. He and the doctor know each other well and have debated many times. They are friends. The doctor has been doing research on the human genome. He chose the doctor because the doctor has a new experimental cancer treatment which deals with the differences in the DNA of the healthy cells and the cancerous ones in a person’s body. Hitchens says he hopes the treatment works because if it doesn’t he doesn’t know where else to turn, but he has not changed his religious views.
Let's say Hitchens said 'population X' makes lousy plumbers. Then he hires someone from population X to do some plumbing. Explaining that his plumber has some new technique would not change the fact that Hitchens was a hypocrite.
Science is founded on the belief that nature obeys laws because there is a Lawgiver over nature. It has always been modernist atheists who are irrational regarding their beliefs about science; this is why postmodernist atheists are more consistent in denying the laws of nature, because they deny the Lawgiver.
I read the article.
but you end up looking like fools.
The only one looking like a fool is the person claiming others did not read an article when they have no idea if they did or not.
You commit a mistake common to us all, you assume based on past knowledge of the subject and in this case, as is often true, you assume wrong.
I assumed nothing. You are the one who admitted to not following him well enough to know the statements he has made in regards to Christians and science etc. As far as assuming...isn't that what you just did to me about whether I read the article or not? You assumed wrong.
Hitchens has not changed his mind and he did not choose the doctor because of his Christianity.
Show me where I said he choose the doctor because of his Christianity. As for changing his mind, I have no idea what you mean by that.
He and the doctor know each other well and have debated many times. They are friends. The doctor has been doing research on the human genome. He chose the doctor because the doctor has a new experimental cancer treatment which deals with the differences in the DNA of the healthy cells and the cancerous ones in a person’s body.
None of which has anything to do with the point I made.
Hitchens says he hopes the treatment works because if it doesn’t he doesn’t know where else to turn, but he has not changed his religious views.
Show me where I said he changed his religious views or be more careful who you call a fool.