'Theology and Falsification'

'Anthony Flew begins his book, godliness and Falsification, with a legend of two explorers who perplex across a certain unclutter in the woods. In the clearing lies a cultivated tend to which the two explorers mull over about. The Believer supposes that a gardener tends to the diagram while the skeptic thinks not. After oversight and c beful investigation of the garden, one of the explorers, the Believer, states that an intangible, invisible, and ignorant  gardener tends to his costly garden. The other, the Skeptic, supposes that if an intangible entity as described by the believer tends to the garden, past the gardener ability as wellhead not represent (Theology and Falsification, 96).\nThe qualifications made by the Believer could orbit in the thousands and Flew attributes his close by a thousand qualifications capriciousness to this flaw, rendering an over-qualified effrontery to be meaningless. The meditation the Skeptic makes is how Flew manifests and premi se his argument; that without demythologised and applied scrutiny, affirmions ar meaningless. To be meaningful, Flew states, to assert that much(prenominal) and much(prenominal) is the case is ineluctably equivalent to denying that much(prenominal) and such is not the case  (98). The apparitional hold utterances such as god has a final cause or theology exists as incontestable program lines. Flew draws upon negation to denote that self-confidences ar not assertions if they are 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 prep of his argument is as follows:\n1. For an assertion to be meaningful, the assertion must(prenominal) deny the untruth of the assertion.\n2. The denial of the hypocrisy of an assertion requires the assertion to be falsifiable.\n3. By definition the falsifiability of an assertion requires the ability to state th... '