Antony Flew: The Existence and Belief of God Antony Flew begins by telling the audience the story of two explorers who accidentally stumbled upon a jungle garden. In this garden there were many beautiful flowers and weeds. An explorer says, "someone gardener must take care of this land." 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 all night, but no gardener ever appeared. Then the "Believer" said that there must be a gardener, that he "is an invisible gardener." He tried everything he could to convince the "skeptic" that he was right, barbed wire, electrifying fence, bloodhound patrol. But no gardener was ever found. However the "Believer" was not convinced. He gave the "skeptic" many excuses for not being able to see the gardener. The "skeptic" told him he was crazy because what began as a simple statement that there was a gardener, turned into "an imaginary gardener." This parable that Flew is using is clearly an analogy for the existence and belief of God. The garden represents God, "...invisible, intangible, insensible...". The "skeptic" says that there is no gardener, just as the atheist denies the existence of God. The "Believer" says that there is a gardener, like an atheist who tells everyone that God exists. The “Believer” tries to prove that there was a planter who planted the seeds for the flowers to grow. This planter takes care of them, a parallel to God supposedly taking care of “us.” Flew talks about assertions. He states that “what begins as a statement, that something exists…can be reduced step by step to an entirely different state.” He uses the example of how if a man needs to talk about sexual behavior, “another man would rather talk about Aphrodite.” They don't seem to make sense. How can the idea of ​​sexual behavior be confused with Aphrodite? He also highlights the fact that "a beautiful, bold hypothesis can be killed by a few inches, the death of a thousand qualifications." A good example of this is when he said that "God loves us as a father loves his children." He states that when we see a child dying of cancer, his "earthly father" is there, helping him, raising him, doing his best for his child. But his “Heavenly Father,” God, is nowhere to be found, and “shows no obvious signs of concern.” The......middle of paper......garden I'm in, that I can't share the detachment of the explorers," Hare said. He tried to point out that if he were in the same situation , would not have shared the same views as the explorers, which is a faith in the gardener, a faith in God. Both of these men had strong views, states that if one affirms something, then one must deny something say is that, there is two sides of every idea or "statement", a blik. What is a crazy blik and a crazy blik Most people have the sane one and those who do not share this view are considered crazy here the person with the crazy blik he's not wrong or trying to deny something, it's just that his opinions are different, "what would have to happen or have happened to constitute for you a..." refutation of the love of God or the existence of God?" Hare's response to this question is that he calls it "completely victorious". Nothing has to happen because those who do not share this belief in God have a crazy blik. They are not trying to deny that God doesn't do this, but rather that their opinions are simply different.