Theology and Falsification

Anthony Flew begins his book, divinity fudge and Falsification, with a parable of deuce explorers who come across a certain clearing in the woods. In the clearing lies a cultivated garden to which the twain explorers suppose about. The believer supposes that a gardener tends to the plot slice the unbeliever thinks not. After oversight and careful investigation of the garden, unity of the explorers, the Believer, states that an intangible, invisible, and insensible  gardener tends to his heartfelt garden. The other, the Skeptic, supposes that if an intangible entity as draw by the believer tends to the garden, then the gardener might as well not live (Theology and Falsification, 96).\nThe qualifications made by the Believer could range in the railway yards and Flew attributes his close by a thousand qualifications notion to this flaw, rendering an over-qualified avouchment to be meaningless. The supposition the Skeptic makes is how Flew manifests and premises his tilt ; that without sagacious and applied scrutiny, instructions are meaningless. To be meaningful, Flew states, to assert that such and such is the case is necessarily resembling to declineing that such and such is not the case  (98). The apparitional cargo area utterances such as perfection has a plan or God exists as incontrovertible assertions. Flew draws upon negation to denote that assertions are not assertions if they are not falsified and their fancied truths negated. Therefore, Flew states that religious, cosmological utterances held by the religious are anything but assertions. Rather, theological utterances are so erode by qualifications that they are no longer assertions. Flews formulation of his argument is as follows:\n1. For an assertion to be meaningful, the assertion must deny the deceit of the assertion.\n2. The denial of the falsehood of an assertion requires the assertion to be falsifiable.\n3. By definition the falsifiability of an assertion require s the ability to state th...