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Ideas of Antony Flew, by Text

[British, b.1923, Educated at Kingswood School, Bath. Professor at Reading University.]

1950 Theology and Falsification
p.225 You can't claim a patch of land is tended by a 'gardener' if there is no evidence, and all counter-evidence is rejected [PG]
p.226 Claims about God don't seem to claim or deny anything tangible, so evidence is irrelevant [PG]
p.227 Religious people seem unwilling to accept any evidence that God does not love us, so their claim is unfalsifiable [PG]