Flew is a right winger. A good writer, though. But it is sad to se him give up on the anti-religious cause for (if the reasoning is corrected described) bad old reasons he has thoroughly skewered over the decades. Maybe it is thoughts of mortality that afflict him.
--- Kevin Robert Dean <Qualiall at adelphia.net> wrote:
> I've witnessed Mr. Flew speak quite a few years ago,
> and I remember
> quite clearly that he was a proud Libertarian who
> somehow, no matter
> what the topic would slip in some stupid barbs
> attacking Old Man Marx....
>
> Ironically, Flew was the one who convinced me to
> latch on to Marx, when
> I was but a young(er) boy of 18, about 10 years ago,
> working in the mail
> room of the Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry.
> When I had free time,
> I would read through the old archives from the early
> 80s of FI mag, and
> there were the ongoing debates between Libertarians
> and Socialists (Flew
> vs Sid Hook to be exact) inside, and this was what
> somehow pushed me to
> the left....
>
> Famous Atheist Now Believes in God
> http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=315976
> A British philosophy professor who has been a
> leading champion of
> atheism for more than a half-century has changed his
> mind. He now
> believes in God more or less based on scientific
> evidence, and says so
> on a video released Thursday.
>
> At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a
> mistake, Antony Flew
> has concluded that some sort of intelligence or
> first cause must have
> created the universe. A super-intelligence is the
> only good explanation
> for the origin of life and the complexity of nature,
> Flew said in a
> telephone interview from England
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