‘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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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1444012023-03-11T20:11:13Z ‘God loves you’ : in defence of theological statements D'Cruz, Joseph Edwin Olav Benjamin Vassend School of Humanities vassend@ntu.edu.sg Humanities::Philosophy 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 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy 2020-11-03T07:06:56Z 2020-11-03T07:06:56Z 2020 Final Year Project (FYP) https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144401 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
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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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