Posted: September 13th, 2017

Read Wisdom’s Parable of the Invisible Gardener

Read Wisdom’s Parable of the Invisible Gardener

Paper instructions:
Read Wisdom’s Parable of the Invisible Gardener.  After reading the parable write a critical analysis paper addressing the following topic:

Does the parable accurately reflect the situation with religious belief, that is, why some look at the universe and see evidence of a creator while others do not? Provide reasons to support the position you take on the parable.

The paper should be between 400-500 words  (approximately 1.5 to 2 typed pages double spaced). You do not need to do any research for these papers beyond the assigned class readings, but be sure to properly cite the use of any secondary sources. Papers MUST cite specific passages from the course text according to MLA style or APA Style. Upload your paper to the digital dropbox as an attachment.

John Wisdom’s Parable:

“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 fence. They electrify it. They patrol with bloodhounds. (For they remember how H. G. Well’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, insensible, 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?”

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