... its truth using sense experience. The 'weak' verification relates to a statement that is possible to be declared probable through affirmation which took place at the time of an event or which could be affirmed at some point in the future. The Falsification Principle argues that a statement is only meaningful if one accepts that evidence may count against it. In this way religious language is said to be meaningless as believers are not prepared to permit anything to count against their beliefs. This is a position held by Antony Flew who added that religious language dies the 'death of a thousand qualifications' with believers qualifying their beliefs when anything appears to count against them. Using John Wisdom's Parable of the Gardener, Flew demonstrated how believers and unbelievers express different reactions to the same 'facts'. Just like the man who refused to believe they was no gardener a religious believer refuses ...

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