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Post 6 Tzortzis argues that the Koran is so superbly crafted that it cannot be the work of a human. He doesn't mean the actual message or the poetical beauty, but rather that its linguistic features are

Post 5 of 6 Again a fallacy. Tzortzis is creating a straw man while simultaneously suggesting atheists have no real arguments. He cites two 'clichés', the first being that atheists change the meaning of

Post 4 There are tools debaters use to throw their opponents off guard in order to win arguments without being right. When Tzortzis uses the name of his opponent in meaningless mental experiments, this

Post 3 After attempting to prove god created the universe, Tzortzis believes he can deduce some attributes of the divine. He believes these qualities matches that of Allah and, thus, give credence to Islam.

Post 2 The argument is that Islam makes sense of the origins of the universe. Because infinite regressions are irrational, the universe can't have an infinite past and so it must have a beginning. It couldn't

This series of posts is meant to denounce flaws in the discourse of an influential figure. It analyses the opening speech of Islamic apologist Hamza Tzortzis in a debate with professor Lawrence Krauss