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1 The Religious Language Debate Parables John Wisdom s Parable of the Invisible Gardner "Two people return to their long neglected garden and find, among the weeds, that a few of the old plants are surprisingly vigorous. One says to the other, 'It must be that a gardener has been coming and doing something about these weeds.' The other disagrees and an argument ensues. They pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener is ever seen. The believer wonders if there is an invisible gardener, so they patrol with bloodhounds but the bloodhounds never give a cry. Yet the believer remains unconvinced, and insists that the gardener is invisible, has no scent and gives no sound. The sceptic doesn't agree, and asks how a so-called invisible, intangible, elusive gardener differ from an imaginary gardener, or even no gardener at all." From Wisdom s article Gods, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society,
2 Antony Flew and the Parable of the Gardener Once upon a time two explorers came upon a clearing in the jungle. In the clearing were growing many flowers and many weeds. One explorer says, Some gardener must tend this plot. The other disagrees, There is no gardener. So they pitch their tents and set a watch. No gardener is ever seen. But perhaps he is an invisible gardener. So they set up a barbed-wire fenced. They electrify it. They patrol with bloodhounds. (For they remember how H. G. Wells s The Invisible Man could be both smelt and touched though he could not be seen.) But no shrieks ever suggest that some intruder has received a shock. No movements of the wire ever betray an invisible climber. The bloodhounds never give cry. Yet still the believer is not convinced. But there is a gardener, invisible, intangible, insensitive to electric shocks, a gardener who has no scent and makes no sound, a gardener who comes secretly to look after the garden which he loves. At last the Sceptic despairs, but what remains of your original assertion? Just how does what you call an invisible, intangible, eternally elusive gardener differ from an imaginary gardener or even from no gardener at all? From Theology and Falsification, in New Essays in Philosophical Theology Any differences from Wisdom s parable? 2
3 R.M. Hare s Lunatic A certain lunatic is convinced that all dons want to murder him. [A don is a tutor at a British university.] His friends introduce him to all the mildest and most respectable dons that they can find, and after each of them has retired, they say, You see, he doesn t really want to murder you; he spoke to you in a most cordial manner; surely you are convinced now? But the lunatic replies, Yes, but that was only is diabolical cunning; he s really plotting against me the whole time, like the rest of them; I know it, I tell you. However many kindly dons are produced, the reaction is still the same. From Theology and Falsification, in New Essays in Philosophical Theology Hare says religious people have a religious blik. Once you accept the religious blik, you have a brand-new way of looking at the world. Your frame of reference is radically altered, and with it, your evidentiary standards. Suddenly all sorts of things that previously did not count as evidence for God begin to count. Your evidentiary filter becomes much more porous. The existence of God becomes so obvious that nothing can falsify it. 3
4 Basil Mitchell s parable of the Stranger / Freedom Fighter In time of war in an occupied country, a member of the resistance meets one night a stranger who deeply impresses him. They spend that night together in conversation. The Stranger tells the partisan that he himself is on the side of the resistance indeed that he is in command of it, and urges the partisan to have faith in him no matter what happens. The partisan is utterly convinced at that meeting of the Stranger s sincerity and constancy and undertakes to trust him. They never meet in conditions of intimacy again. But sometimes the Stranger is seen helping members of the resistance, and the partisan is grateful and says to his friends, He is on our side. Sometimes he is seen in the uniform of the police handling over patriots to the occupying power. On these occasions his friends murmur against him: but the partisan still says, He is on our side. He still believes that, in spite of appearances, the Stranger did not deceive him. Sometimes he asks the Stranger for help and receives it. He is then thankful. Sometimes he asks and does not receive it. Then he says, The Stranger knows best. Sometimes his friends, in exasperation, say, Well, what would he have to do for you to admit that you were wrong and that he is not on our side? But the partisan refuses to answer. He will not consent to put the Stranger to the test. And sometimes his friends complain, Well, if that s what you mean by his being on our side, the sooner he goes over to the other side the better. 4
5 According to Mitchell, statements like The Stranger is on our side or God loves us are genuine assertions, in that they can be falsified. How could they be falsified? When the partisan asks the stranger for help and doesn t receive any help, the partisan is not logically compelled to say The Stranger is not on our side. The partisan can say instead The Stranger is on our side but he has reasons for withholding help. The question is: How long can he uphold [this position] without it s becoming just silly? How many times must you give a friend the benefit of the doubt? Mitchell s answer is I don t think one can say in advance. Is it unreasonable or illogical to maintain faith in a person with whom you have a relationship? John Hick s Parable of the Celestial City Two men are travelling together along a road. One of them believes that the road will lead them to the Celestial City, whereas the other believes that the road leads nowhere. However, since this is the only road, the two men have no option but to travel along it. Neither of them has been that way before, so each twist and turn is new. They share the experiences of the journey, only differing on what they believe is at the end of their travels. 5
6 On the journey there are both times of enjoyment and times of hardship and danger. Each interprets them differently to the other. All of the time, traveller A who believes that the Celestial City is at the end of the journey thinks of the journey as like a pilgrimage. He sees the pleasant parts as encouragements, and the difficult parts as trials he must endure to show that he is indeed worthy of entering the Celestial City. The other, however, believes none of this. Traveller B sees the journey as unavoidable and pointless, he has no choice. So he enjoys the good and endures the bad times. There is no wonderful end to the journey, no Celestial City, just the luck of the road. When they turn the last corner it will be apparent that one of them has been right all the time and the other wrong. Only then will the truth be known. Richard Swinburne s Toys in the Cupboard Swinburne gives the example of a cupboard of toys that come to life when everyone is asleep and no one is looking. We can never gather the evidence to falsify the toys moving but we understand the idea of toys moving. 6
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