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Letters


Letters


No Disproof Possible • Truth, Justice & the Amercan Way • Nietzsche: Delusion & Confusion • The Singing Revolutionaries


No Disproof Possible


DEAR EDITOR: In Prof. Antony Flew’s article ‘Theology and Falsification’ (issue 29) he ends by asking the question: “What would… constitute… a disproof… of the existence of God?” My answer to this is simple - nothing! In no way can faith be disproved. Faith is that which is held even in the face of logical contradiction, absurdity, and blatant refutation. These issues go back to men like Spinoza and Kierkegaard who wanted, although for very different reasons, to show that faith and reason are not at loggerheads. In fact, the one has nothing to do with the other.


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