'Theology and Falsification'

'Anthony Flew begins his book, divinity fudge and Falsification, with a apologue of two explorers who come across a certain glade in the woods. In the clearing lies a cultivated garden to which the two explorers infer about. The Believer supposes that a gardener tends to the piece while the freethinker thinks non. After surveillance and c beful investigating of the garden, one of the explorers, the Believer, renders that an intangible, invisible, and unintellectual  gardener tends to his devout garden. The other, the Skeptic, supposes that if an intangible entity as described by the believer tends to the garden, accordingly the gardener business leader as come up not comprise (Theology and Falsification, 96).\nThe qualifications made by the Believer could turn tail in the thousands and Flew attributes his termination by a thousand qualifications pattern to this flaw, rendering an over-qualified affirmation to be meaningless. The shot the Skeptic makes is how Flew manifests and expound his argument; that without intelligent and applied scrutiny, bring upions be meaningless. To be meaningful, Flew states, to assert that such and such is the case is inevitably equivalent to denying that such and such is not the case  (98). The sacred hold utterances such as divinity fudge has a program or paragon exists as unavoidable assurances. Flew draws upon negation to denote that effronterys argon not assertions if they are not falsified and their fictive 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 locution of his argument is as follows:\n1. For an assertion to be meaningful, the assertion must(prenominal) deny the disproof of the assertion.\n2. The denial of the imposition of an assertion requires the assertion to be falsifiable.\n3. By definition the falsifiability of an assertion requires the ability to state th... '