Zakir Naik
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Zakir Naik is an Indian Muslim and Islamic scholar, and founder and president of the Islamic Research Foundation.
Naik believes that he can prove the existence of God through logical argument; but it requires a serious lack of critical thinking ability to be persuaded by him. One argument he made actually depended on the argument that "at the time when the Qur'an was revealed, people thought the world was flat,"[1] thus adapting the old creationist slop about the Biblical scientific foreknowledge in Isaiah 40:22.
However, not only is his statistical reasoning extremely fallacious, the premise is completely false, and his claim should set alarm bells ringing in anyone with an elementary knowledge of history. Aristotle proved the earth was spherical as early as the 4th century B.C.;[2] the Qu'ran was written in the 7th century A.D., by which time this knowledge had spread.