Antony Flew: The Existence And Belief Of God

Part I of Essay
How can I start this paper? Hmmmm…..??? Let's begin with the parable. Antony Flew starts off his speech by telling the audience this story of two explorers that accidentally came upon a garden in a jungle. In this garden, there were many beautiful flowers and weeds. O ....

Part II of Essay
.... that Flew is using is clearly an analogy to the existence and belief of God. The garden represents God, "…invisible, intangible, insensible…". The "Sceptic" says there is no gardener, just as an atheist denies the existence God. The "Believer" says there is a gardener, like a theist telling everyone that God exists. The "Believer" tries to prove that there was a planter, who planted the seeds for the flowers to grow. This planter takes care of them, a parallelism to God supposedly taking care of "us". Flew talks about assertions. ....