Flew, Antony Garrard Newton
- Flew, Antony Garrard Newton
(b. 1923)
Philosopher.
The son of a Methodist professor, Flew was educated at the Universities of London and Oxford, and has taught philosophy at the Universities of Aberdeen, Keele, Reading and Toronto.
He has been President of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society and is the author of many books. He is particularly known in Christian circles for his attack on the logic of religious belief in his article ‘Theology and Falsification’, first published in 1950. He asks the question what evidence could be said to count against the claim that God is love. Whatever counter-evidence is produced, such as cancer, earthquakes, cruelty or landslides, the believer will argue that the evil is merely an exception which can be accommodated within the proposition that God is love. Thus, Flew argues, religious belief ‘dies the death of a thousand qualifications’. It cannot be falsified and therefore has no content as a factual proposition.
Antony Flew, God and Philosophy (1966);
J. Hick, The Existence of God (1964);
J. Macquarrie, GodTalk (1967).
Who’s Who in Christianity .
2014.
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