Antony Flew, before his conversion to theism, wrote an article in which he argued that religious assertions such as “God loves his creatures” are in fact meaningless, because there is nothing that could happen that would cause the believer to deny the assertion. But if there is no state of affairs that would warrant a [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Rehashed Verificationism
Posted in Philosophy / Theology on July 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Probability and Evidence, Part III
Posted in Philosophy / Theology, Probability on July 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
To wrap up the previous two posts, I have a few thoughts on the common invocation of the principle that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” We have already seen that this principle doesn’t do what its common proponents would like it to do, for the reason that extraordinary claims constitute extraordinary evidence. However, there is [...]
Probability and Evidence, Part II
Posted in Philosophy / Theology, Probability on July 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I didn’t realize until I came to WordPress to write this post that my last post was more than a week ago! I had originally intended to write this last Friday or Saturday. All future statements about forthcoming blog posts should be taken in the same general vein as the Scriptural statement “Behold, I am [...]
