Mistake - flew and ayer didn't believe religious statements to be factual or cognitive. Rather, Flew argued that religious statements are ones of psychological bias, whereby the religious believer tries to justify the belief by trying to verify the statement that God exists; even if they are presented with arguments that do not support their theory, they always seek to verify it. Thus, Flew argues that if we use the principle of verification, one is always able to justify their belief. And so, one should seek to falsify it before one and render it false. Through Flew's parable of the gardener originally developed by John Wisdom, Flew shows that religious statements are meaningless. The same goes for Ayer with his verification principle and dismissal of anything religion based.
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Mistake - flew and ayer didn't believe religious statements to be factual or cognitive. Rather, Flew argued that religious statements are ones of psychological bias, whereby the religious believer tries to justify the belief by trying to verify the statement that God exists; even if they are presented with arguments that do not support their theory, they always seek to verify it. Thus, Flew argues that if we use the principle of verification, one is always able to justify their belief. And so, one should seek to falsify it before one and render it false. Through Flew's parable of the gardener originally developed by John Wisdom, Flew shows that religious statements are meaningless. The same goes for Ayer with his verification principle and dismissal of anything religion based.