Flew's 'Parable of the Gardener' :wilted_flower:
In this parable, two explorers come across a flower patch in a jungle. One of the explorers suggests that the flowers where tended by an invisible,intangible, non-detectable grander -the explorers description of the gradren is added and developed to dismiss the fact that he cannot be sesned. The gardern is said to be eternally elusive avoid detetction. The other explorer questions the existence of the gardener versus its non existence. He also suggests that it is meaningless to believe in something with so little evidence.
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2nd: athiest.
Flew tries to demonstrate a theist and athiest's approuch to belife in God.
theist (1st explorer) will never be convinced that their beliefs are meaningless, even in the presence of underwhelming or no evidence. Religous belivers always try to adapt the meaning of God to suite their undertsanding.
don;t allow anything to contradict God.
would belive and find and excuse for statemnst like 'God loves us' even in the face of a distaster.
-modify the way they talk about God in a response to a challange
Understadning of God has been so extrapolated that it is meanigless and to vauge. worhsopping everything good.
Athiset, represented by 2nd, would believe that what remains of the gardenr is makes it easy to believe that there is no gardenr at all. A theist's drisctiption of God has been changed so much that 'God died a death by a thousand qualifications.'
-can't detect then why believe
-f there respnse is that God is beyond our human undertsanding, then theres no point in beliving in something you don't undertand.
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Mitchel responds to Flew's idea of God 'dying a death of a thousand qualifications' through a story in which a Partisan
The Partisan meetsa a stranger who assures the partisan that he's on the same side of the resistance. Even though the stranger is seen perfoming acts atht an oppnent does, the Partsian still has trust in the stanger despite what his other freidns say.
