[lbo-talk] Famous Atheist drops the "A" letter

[Jon Johanning]

Something seems to happen to these British no-nonsense philosophers as 
time passes. A. J. Ayer famously had a near-death experience which may 
or may not have led him to reconsider his anti-theology stance 
(accounts seem to differ).

At any rate, I would like to see if Flew has any corrections to make in 
his earlier arguments, which I have always thought were pretty 
trenchant. Exactly why does he think that the origin of life could only 
have been caused by an intelligent designer, given that contemporary 
science has come up with a number of quite plausible explanations 
(though of course we currently lack enough evidence to consider any of 
them well-grounded)?

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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