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Espie asked:

Can you give me an idea on presenting and explaining also evaluating Flew's analogy of the
gardener? What is this analogy supposed to tell us about belief in God?

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The general idea is that just as in the case of that garden different people can look at the garden and
draw incompatible conclusions about whether the garden has a gardner or not, so two different
people can look at the world and draw incompatible conclusions about whether there is a God who
designed the world. (By the way, although Anthony Flew discussed and anthologized this paper, it
was the philosopher, John Wisdom who wrote it.)

Ken Stern