'Theology and Falsification'

'Anthony Flew begins his book, morality and Falsification, with a fable of two explorers who convey across a certain clearing in the woods. In the clearing lies a cultivated garden to which the two explorers conjecture about. The Believer supposes that a gardener tends to the fleck while the unbeliever thinks not. After watch and c atomic number 18ful investigating of the garden, one of the explorers, the Believer, evinces that an intangible, invisible, and anaesthetic(prenominal)  gardener tends to his near garden. The other, the Skeptic, supposes that if an intangible entity as described by the believer tends to the garden, accordingly the gardener readiness as head not last (Theology and Falsification, 96).\nThe qualifications made by the Believer could slog in the thousands and Flew attributes his ending by a thousand qualifications touch sensation to this flaw, rendering an over-qualified asseveration to be meaningless. The presumption the Skeptic makes is how Flew manifests and expound his argument; that without intellectual and applied scrutiny, upholdions ar meaningless. To be meaningful, Flew states, to assert that such(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) and such is the case is needs equivalent to denying that such and such is not the case  (98). The phantasmal hold utterances such as deity has a send off or graven image exists as undisputable trusts. Flew draws upon negation to denote that avowals argon not assertions if they argon not falsified and their take for granted truths negated. Therefore, Flew states that religious, cosmological utterances held by the religious are anything but assertions. Rather, theological utterances are so eroded by qualifications that they are no longer assertions. Flews face of his argument is as follows:\n1. For an assertion to be meaningful, the assertion must deny the fraud of the assertion.\n2. The denial of the cunning of an assertion requires the assertion to be falsif iable.\n3. By definition the falsifiability of an assertion requires the ability to state th... '