'Theology and Falsification'

'Anthony Flew begins his book, Theology and Falsification, with a parable of twain explorers who come across a certain(prenominal) elucidation in the woods. In the clearing lies a accomplished garden to which the dickens explorers suppose about. The worshiper supposes that a nurseryman tends to the plot plot the skeptic thinks non. after supervision and sleepless investigation of the garden, oneness of the explorers, the worshipper, states that an intangible asset, invisible, and insensible  gardener tends to his beloved garden. The other, the Skeptic, supposes that if an intangible entity as exposit by the worshipper tends to the garden, then the gardener might as well non exist (Theology and Falsification, 96).\nThe qualifications make by the Believer could range in the thous and Flew attri simplyes his death by a thousand qualifications nonion to this flaw, rendering an over-qualified boldness to be meaningless. The supposition the Skeptic makes is how Flew manifests and premises his motive; that without rational and apply scrutiny, program lines argon meaningless. To be meaningful, Flew states, to assert that such(prenominal) and such is the event is necessarily resembling to tracking that such and such is not the suit of clothes  (98). The religious celebrate utterances such as God has a plan or God exists as undeniable avouchments. Flew draws upon negation to concern that assertions ar not assertions if they are not falsified and their assumed truths negated. Therefore, Flew states that religious, cosmogenic utterances held by the religious are anything but assertions. Rather, theological utterances are so crumble by qualifications that they are no long-lived assertions. Flews formulation of his rock is as follows:\n1. For an assertion to be meaningful, the assertion must deny the falsehood of the assertion.\n2. The self-renunciation of the falsehood of an assertion requires the assertion to be falsifiable.\n3 . By rendering the falsifi strength of an assertion requires the ability to state th... '