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Antony Flew – World’s Most Famous Atheist Accepts Existence of God

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Has Science Discovered God?

A half-century ago, in 1955, Professor Antony Flew set the agenda for modern atheism with his Theology and Falsification, a paper presented in a debate with C.S. Lewis. This work became the most widely reprinted philosophical publication of the last 50 years. Over the decades, he published more than 30 books attacking belief in God and debated a wide range of religious believers.

Then, in a 2004 Summit at New York University, Professor Flew announced that the discoveries of modern science have led him to the conclusion that the universe is indeed the creation of infinite Intelligence.

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Second, they show no awareness of the fallacies and

muddles that led to the rise and fall of logical positivism.

Those who ignore the mistakes of history will have to repeat

them at some point. Third, they seem entirely unaware of

the massive corpus of works in analytic philosophy of reli-

gion or the sophisticated new arguments generated within

philosophical theism.

It would be fair to say that the “new atheism” is nothing

less than a regression to the logical positivist philosophy

that was renounced by even its most ardent proponents. In

fact, the “new atheists,” it might be said, do not even rise

to logical positivism. The positivists were never so naive as

to suggest that God could be a scientific hypothesis—they

declared the concept of God to be meaningless precisely

because it was not a scientific hypothesis. Dawkins, on the

other hand, holds that “the presence or absence of a cre-

ative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific ques-

tion.”6

This is the kind of comment of which we say it is

not even wrong! In Appendix A, I seek to show that our

immediate experience of rationality, life, consciousness,

thought, and the self militate against every form of athe-

ism, including the newest.

But two things must be said here about certain com-

ments by Dawkins that are directly relevant to the pres-

ent book. After writing that Bertrand Russell “was an

exaggeratedly fair-minded atheist, over-eager to be disillu-

sioned if logic seemed to require it,” he adds in a footnote:

“We might be seeing something similar today in the over

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publicized tergiversation of the philosopher Antony Flew,

who announced in his old age that he had been converted

to belief in some sort of deity (triggering a frenzy of eager

repetition all around the Internet). On the other hand, Rus-

sell was a great philosopher. Russell won the Nobel Prize.”7

The puerile petulance of the contrast with the “great phi-

losopher” Russell and the contemptible reference to Flew’s

“old age” are par for the course in Dawkins’s epistles to

the enlightened. But what is interesting here is Dawkins’s

choice of words, one by which he unwittingly reveals the

way his mind works.

Tergiversation means “apostasy.” So Flew’s principal

sin was that of apostatizing from the faith of the fathers.

Dawkins himself has elsewhere confessed that his atheistic

view of the universe is based on faith. When asked by the

Edge Foundation, “What do you believe is true even though

you cannot prove it?” Dawkins replied: “I believe that all

life, all intelligence, all creativity and all ‘design’ anywhere

in the universe, is the direct or indirect product of Darwin-

ian natural selection. It follows that design comes late in

the universe, after a period of Darwinian evolution. Design

cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie

the universe.”8 At bottom, then, Dawkins’s rejection of an

ultimate Intelligence is a matter of belief without proof.

And like many whose beliefs are based on blind faith, he

cannot tolerate dissent or defection.

With regard to Dawkins’s approach to the rational-

ity underlying the universe, the physicist John Barrow

observed in a discussion: “You have a problem with these

ideas, Richard, because you’re not really a scientist. You’re

a biologist.” Julia Vitullo-Martin notes that for Barrow biol-

ogy is little more than a branch of natural history. “Biolo-

gists,” says Barrow, “have a limited, intuitive understanding

of complexity. They’re stuck with an inherited conflict from

the nineteenth century, and are only interested in out-

comes, in what wins out over others. But outcomes tell you

almost nothing about the laws that govern the universe.”9

Dawkins’s intellectual father seems to be Bertrand Rus-

sell. He talks about how he was “inspired . . . at the age of

about sixteen”10 by Russell’s 1925 essay “What I Believe.”

Russell was a determined opponent of organized religion,

and this makes him a role model for Harris and Dawkins;

stylistically too they emulate Russell’s penchant for sar-

casm, caricature, flippancy, and exaggeration. But Russell’s

rejection of God was not motivated just by intellectual fac-

tors. In My Father, Bertrand Russell, his daughter, Katha-

rine Tait, writes that Russell was not open to any serious

discussion of God’s existence: “I could not even talk to him

about religion.” Russell was apparently turned off by the

kind of religious believers he had encountered. “I would

have liked to convince my father that I had found what

he had been looking for, the ineffable something he had

longed for all his life. I would have liked to persuade him

that the search for God does not have to be vain. But it was

hopeless. He had known too many blind Christians, bleak

moralists who sucked the joy from life and persecuted their

opponents; he would never have been able to see the truth

they were hiding.”

Tait, nevertheless, believes that Russell’s “whole life was

a search for God. . . .Somewhere at the back of my father’s

mind, at the bottom of his heart, in the depths of his soul,

there was an empty space that had once been filled by God,

and he never found anything else to put in it.” He had the

“ghostlike feeling of not belonging, of having no home

in this world.”11

In a poignant passage, Russell once said:

“Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart

except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious

teachers have preached.”12You would be hard put to find

any passage that remotely resembles this in Dawkins.

Returning to the account of Flew’s “tergiversation,” it

has perhaps never occurred to Dawkins that philosophers,

whether great or less well known, young or old, change

their minds based on the evidence. He might be disap

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pointed that they are “over-eager to be disillusioned if logic

seemed to require it,” but then again they are guided by

logic, not by fear of tergiversation.

Russell, in particular, was so fond of tergiversation that

another celebrated British philosopher, C. D. Broad, once

said, “As we all know, Mr. Russell produces a different

system of philosophy every few years.”13 There have been

other instances of philosophers changing their mind on

the basis of evidence. We have already observed that Ayer

disavowed the positivism of his youth. Another example of

one who underwent such radical change is J. N. Findlay,

who argued, in Flew’s 1955 book New Essays in Philosophi-

cal Theology, 14 that God’s existence can be disproved—but

then reversed himself in his 1970 work Ascent to the Abso-

lute.

In the latter and subsequent books, Findlay argues

that mind, reason, intelligence, and will culminate in God,

the self-existent, to whom is owed worship and uncondi-

tional self-dedication.

Dawkins’s “old age” argument (if it can be called that)

is a strange variation of the ad hominem fallacy that has no

place in civilized discourse. True thinkers evaluate argu-

ments and weigh the evidence without regard to the pro-

ponent’s race, sex, or age.

Another persistent theme in Dawkins’s book, and in

those of some of the other “new atheists,” is the claim that

no scientist worth his or her salt believes in God. Dawkins,

for instance, explains away Einstein’s statements about God

as metaphorical references to nature. Einstein himself, he

says, is at best an atheist (like Dawkins) and at worst a

pantheist. But this bit of Einsteinian exegesis is patently

dishonest. Dawkins references only quotes that show Ein-

stein’s distaste for organized and revelational religion. He

deliberately leaves out not just Einstein’s comments about

his belief in a “superior mind” and a “superior reasoning

power” at work in the laws of nature, but also Einstein’s

specific denial that he is either a pantheist or an atheist.

(This deliberate distortion is rectified in this book.)

More recently, when asked on a visit to Jerusalem if he

believed in the existence of God, the famous theoretical

physicist Stephen Hawking is reported to have replied that

he did “believe in the existence of God, but that this Divine

force established the laws of nature and physics and after

that does not enter to control the world.”15 Of course, many

other great scientists of modern times such as Heisenberg

and Planck believed in a divine Mind on rational grounds.

But this too is whitewashed out of Dawkins’s account of

scientific history.

Dawkins, in fact, belongs to the same peculiar club of

popular science writers as Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov from

a previous generation. These popularizers saw themselves

not simply as scribes, but as high priests. Like Dawkins,

they took on themselves the task not just of educating

the public on the findings of science, but also of deciding

what it is permissible for the scientific faithful to believe

on matters metaphysical. But let us be clear here. Many

of the greatest scientists saw a direct connection between

their scientific work and their affirmation of a “superior

mind,” the Mind of God. Explain it how you will, but this

is a plain fact that the popularizers with their own agendas

cannot be allowed to hide. About positivism, Einstein in

fact said, “I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what

cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is sci-

entifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid

affirmations of what people ‘can’ or ‘cannot’ observe. One

would have to say ‘only what we observe exists,’ which is

obviously false.”16

If they want to discourage belief in God, the populariz-

ers must furnish arguments in support of their own atheis-

tic views. Today’s atheist evangelists hardly even try to argue

their case in this regard. Instead, they train their guns on

well-known abuses in the history of the major world reli-

gions. But the excesses and atrocities of organized religion

have no bearing whatsoever on the existence of God, just

as the threat of nuclear proliferation has no bearing on the

question of whether E = mc2.

So does God exist? What about the arguments of athe-

ists old and new? And what bearing does modern science

have on the matter? By a striking coincidence, at this par-

ticular moment in intellectual history when the old positiv-

ism is back in vogue, the same thinker who helped end its

reign a half century ago returns to the battlefield of ideas

to answer these very questions.

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Richard Dawkins vs William Lane Craig – Full Debate –

Antony Flew on God and Atheism

Published on Feb 11, 2013

Lee Strobel interviews philosopher and scholar Antony Flew on his conversion from atheism to deism. Much of it has to do with intelligent design. Flew was considered one of the most influential and important thinker for atheism during his time before his death (he’s a much better thinker than Richard Dawkins too – even when he was an atheist). His conversion to God-belief has caused an uproar among atheists. They have done all they can to lessen the impact of his famous conversion by shamelessly suggesting he’s too old, senile and mentally deranged to understand logic and science anymore.

News on Antony Flew’s conversion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1e4FU…

Interview and discussion with Antony Flew:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53REH…

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