The Unbelievers Analysis

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CH2 - Questions/Answers in Dialogue 2. Evaluate the recent documentary video by Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss. It 's available on Netflix and other streaming services. Let me know if you have any difficulty accessing the film. http://unbelieversmovie.com/ Critique two different question/answer exchanges from the debate in terms of the question/answer scenarios in Ch. 2 of the Walton text - and critique how well your two debate choices conformed (or not) to the principles of informal logic The Unbelievers This posting is in regards to the documentary movie The Unbelievers, but more so the questions in dialogue. Through chapter two we find that our book takes a look at the topic of questions in dialogue. In their words we find “Normally in reasonable dialogue one is obliged to try to give a direct answer to a question” going on to say “if one knows the answer, and if the question is reasonable and appropriate” (Walton, 2008). We then read that normal doesn’t necessarily mean the norm. Issues involving many different aspects of question and answer scenarios are illustrated in this chapter. …show more content…

The first person introduced is Dr. Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist and author of A Universe from Nothing. The second subject of the film is Dr. Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion. The movie then takes the viewer through the travels in which Krauss and Dawkins are seen debating, or discussing the ability to question the topic of religion. Finally, the viewer is given the chance to witness speeches by the two men and others at the Reason Rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., touted as the largest rally of its kind at the

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