Falsification menas to prove something false, an assertion is meaningless if there is no way in which it can be falsified.
Karl Popper: Falsification was a way to demarcate scientific statements from other statements. Thus if applied to religious belief falsification raises a question about the nature of the claims that religious people make.
Anthony Flew: Presented an analogy: Two explorers come across a clearing in a jungle filled with weeds. One suggests that there is a gardener who looks after it secretly. The sceptic despairs - what remains of your orginal assertion, just how does what you call an invisible, intangible, eternally elusive gardener differ from an a imaginery garderner or no gardner at all.
Flew said that religious believers say that God loves them even when disaster happens. No experience seems to falsify a religious believers faith. Flew therefore argues that talk about God is meaningless. God has died a death by a thousand qualifications. Whenever a religious believer is challanged they modify what they say which no longer resemble the orginal claims about God.
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