Is Richard Dawkins a secular bigot? Maybe the best person to address this was the famous atheist Antony Flew who left his atheism in 2004.
| Flew Slams Dawkins… |
…as a “secular bigot.”
After the world’s most influential atheist stunned the atheist community with his book There Is a God, and was accused of being a senescent scholar manipulated by cunning Christians, Antony Flew has come out swinging at Richard Dawkins and his book The God Delusion.
Writes Flew,
The fault of Dawkins as an academic (which he still was during the period in which he composed this book although he has since announced his intention to retire) was his scandalous and apparently deliberate refusal to present the doctrine which he appears to think he has refuted in its strongest form…and his failure is the crucial index of his insincerity of academic purpose and therefore warrants me in charging him with having become, what he has probably believed to be an impossibility, a secularist bigot.
After criticizing Dawkins for his unacademic approach, Flew turns to the author’s self-serving intentions:
This whole business makes all too clear that Dawkins is not interested in the truth as such but is primarily concerned to discredit an ideological opponent by any available means. That would itself constitute sufficient reason for suspecting that the whole enterprise of The God Delusion was not, as it at least pretended to be, an attempt to discover and spread knowledge of the existence or non-existence of God but rather an attempt,an extremely successful one, to spread the author’s own convictions in this area.
If that’s the result of mental senescence, I’ll look forward to a lump of it when I approach those octogenarian years.
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Does God Exist? Thomas Warren vs. Antony Flew
Published on Jan 2, 2014
Date: September 20-23, 1976
Location: North Texas State University
Christian debater: Thomas B. Warren
Atheist debater: Antony G.N. Flew
For Thomas Warren: http://www.warrenapologeticscenter.org/
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Antony Flew and his conversion to theism
Uploaded on Aug 12, 2011
Antony Flew, a well known spokesperson for atheism for several decades, changed his mind and turned from atheism to Deism. Professor Flew, who was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading, has given clear reasons why he made that transition. These reasons have been presented briefly in this compilation.
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The Bible and Science (Part 01)
Discussion (1 of 3): Antony Flew, N.T. Wright, and Gary Habermas
Uploaded on Sep 22, 2010
A discussion with Antony Flew, N.T. Wright, and Gary Habermas. This was held at Westminster Chapel March, 2008
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Moral Implications of Atheism – Kyle Butt
Quotes William Provine, Dan Barker, Charles Darwin,Peter Singer, James Rachels, Eric R. Pianka, Richard Dawkins, and Sam Harris
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Uploaded on Jan 20, 2010
Scene from Extras series one, “Kate Winslet”, in a conversation all atheists will recognise only too well.
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Is There a God? William Lane Craig vs Victor J. Stenger (University of Hawaii, 2003)
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