World's Leading Atheist Loses His Faith - 19 Dec 2004
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A British philosophy professor considered by many to have been the leading exponent of atheism for more than a half-century has - erm - changed his mind. He now believes in God more or less based on scientific evidence, and says so on a video released last Thursday. | |
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At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew (below) has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. | |
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One distraught atheist this week said: "I'm not sure how to express what a big deal this is... Any halfwit can jump up and down denouncing God, but for a half century professor Anthony Flew has been considered probably the number one living intellectual proponent of religious skepticism and atheism." |
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Basically, over some period of time Flew has come to accept the "design" that there's simply too much complexity in DNA for life to have developed without some kind of intelligent guidance. | |
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But before Christians start claiming Flew as 'one of our own', the man himself stresses that he's best labeled a deist like Thomas Jefferson, whose God was not actively involved in people's lives. "I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins," he said. "It could be a person in the sense of a being that has intelligence and a purpose, I suppose." |
For an interesting article about this, check out The Seattle Times