ANTONY FLEW’S FALSIFICATION

What is Flew’s works?

‘Theology and Falsification’

What is the falsification principle?

Statement only meaningful if it is known what would be needed to prove it false

How did Flew alter to logical positivists?

Claimed instead of insisting a statement should be verifiable, instead should be falsifiable

What analogy does Flew refer to?

2 explorers in jungle, believer asserts gardener must care for garden, sceptic disagrees but believer changes, claiming gardener must be invisible & so on

Flew, thus points…

if religious believers keep on changing their descriptions of God when they’re challenged, their argument eventually lacks content & meaning

God’s love example