Theology and Falsification

Anthony Flew begins his book, Theology and Falsification, with a parable of two explorers who commence across a accredited clearing in the woods. In the clearing lies a gracious garden to which the two explorers aver about. The Believer supposes that a nurseryman tends to the plot while the sceptic thinks not. After supervision and calculated investigation of the garden, one of the explorers, the Believer, states that an intangible asset, invisible, and unspiritual  gardener tends to his beloved garden. The other, the Skeptic, supposes that if an intangible entity as described by the believer tends to the garden, then the gardener might as healthy not exist (Theology and Falsification, 96).\nThe qualifications make by the Believer could represent in the thousands and Flew attributes his death by a thousand qualifications effect to this flaw, rendering an over-qualified bankion to be meaningless. The supposition the Skeptic makes is how Flew manifests and premise his ar gument; that without rational and use scrutiny, instructions be meaningless. To be meaningful, Flew states, to assert that much(prenominal) and such is the cutting is necessarily equivalent to denying that such and such is not the model  (98). The religious hold utterances such as immortal has a plan or God exists as undeniable assertions. Flew draws upon negation to touch that assertions be not assertions if they argon not falsified and their assumed truths negated. Therefore, Flew states that religious, cosmologic utterances held by the religious are anything but assertions. Rather, theological utterances are so eroded by qualifications that they are no womb-to-tomb assertions. Flews formulation of his argument is as follows:\n1. For an assertion to be meaningful, the assertion must deny the deception of the assertion.\n2. The denial of the falsehood of an assertion requires the assertion to be falsifiable.\n3. By definition the falsifi competency of an assertion requires the ability to state th...