To: SeekAndFind
Well, now he knows if he made the right choice
2 posted on
04/14/2010 9:30:50 AM PDT by
silverleaf
(Karl Marx was NOT one of America's Founding Fathers)
To: SeekAndFind
Does anyone know if Flew ever came to faith in Christ?
3 posted on
04/14/2010 9:31:24 AM PDT by
Guyin4Os
(A messianic ger-tsedek)
To: SeekAndFind
In the face of eternity, man’s logic, man’s attempt to reason away the miracles of the universe ... simply fall apart.
To: SeekAndFind
one of those i better cover my bets moments...??...
7 posted on
04/14/2010 9:36:09 AM PDT by
tatsinfla
To: SeekAndFind
Flew always described himself as a "negative atheist", asserting that "theological propositions can neither be verified nor falsified by experience", a position he expounded in his classic paper Theology and Falsification (1950), reputedly the most frequently-quoted philosophical publication of the second half of the 20th century.
Nietzsche already covered that in detail.
"negative atheist"---a God fearing agnostic.
To: SeekAndFind
9 posted on
04/14/2010 9:42:20 AM PDT by
SpinnerWebb
(In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl
12 posted on
04/14/2010 9:46:43 AM PDT by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: SeekAndFind
"We reject all transcendent supernatural systems, not because we've examined or could have examined each in turn, but because it does not seem to us that there is any good evidence in reason to postulate anything behind or beyond this natural universe,"
The trouble is, there is no rational basis for this presupposition. All epistemological systems must start with certain primary assumptions ("axioms") which can neither be proven or disproved by reason. It is these presuppositional foundations which dictate how one percieves reality (ie. metaphysics). The test is how well does any given epistemology explain human experience. I would argue that an empirical epistemology makes no sense of human experience. Only when we start out presupposing the truth of scripture does our reality make sense.
To: SeekAndFind
"I have been persuaded that it is simply out of the question that the first living matter evolved out of dead matter and then developed into an extraordinarily complicated creature," he said.
To: SeekAndFind
45 posted on
04/14/2010 12:08:46 PM PDT by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: SeekAndFind; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; metmom
..."theological propositions can neither be verified nor falsified by experience". Depends on what qualifies as "experience," I suppose....
R.I.P. dear Sir Anthony. I shall miss you, but hope to meet you some day.
May God ever bless you.
50 posted on
04/15/2010 1:06:06 PM PDT by
betty boop
(Nil desperandum.)
To: SeekAndFind
52 posted on
04/23/2010 8:52:36 PM PDT by
Salvation
( "With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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