Ayer thinks it is perfectly meaningful to say that the human eye is staggeringly complex or the probability of life evolving on Earth is mindbogglingly unlikely. If we are describing unusual patterns or regularities in nature, we are making factual statements. It has no factual or logical content at all. This means that religious language seems to be telling us something about the world, but it isn't really. Statements that aren't verifiable in this way are, according to Ayer, "meaningless" or "nonsensical".Īyer argues that religious language (he calls it "God-talk") is always meaningless, because God can't be factually observed or logically deduced. These statements are VERIFIABLE: you can check the first one by looking at the roses you can check the second and third by consulting an abacus or a dictionary.
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