‘God loves you’ : in defence of theological statements
Making theological statements is a contentious issue. Flew argues that since claims about God are not empirically shown and proven false using the Popperian notion of falsification, they are meaningless. I argue that falsification is an inadequate tool. The method is unable to properly falsify th...
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Nanyang Technological University
2020
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| Summary: | Making theological statements is a contentious issue. Flew argues that since claims about God are
not empirically shown and proven false using the Popperian notion of falsification, they are
meaningless. I argue that falsification is an inadequate tool. The method is unable to properly
falsify the very domain it is aiming to prove, namely science. I will also show how we can
meaningfully make theological statements by arguing that both theology and science use
analogous manners of description in their language.
Keywords: theological statements, verification, falsification, analogy |
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