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Antony Flew: The Existence and Belief of God


How can I start this paper? Hmmmm…..??? Let\'s begin with the parable. Antony
Flew starts off his speech by telling the audience this story of two explorers
that accidentally came upon a garden in a jungle. In this garden, there were
many beautiful flowers and weeds. One explorer says, \"some gardener must tend
this plot\". While the other disagrees, \"there is no gardener\". So, these two
explorers tried to figure out who was right and who was wrong. They waited the
whole night, but no gardener was ever seen. Then the \"Believer\" said that there
must be a gardener, that he \"is an invisible gardener\". He tried everything he
could to convince to the \"Sceptic\" that he was right, barbed-wire, electrifying
fence, patrolling bloodhounds. But no gardener was ever found. Still the
\"Believer\" was not convinced. He gave the \"Sceptic\" many excuses as to why they
couldn\'t see the gardener. The \"Sceptic\" told him that he......

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