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What do you think? Who is Dr. Antony Flew?

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dave1459 8 Aug 30
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Anthony Flew was an Athiest for 50 odd years, he died in 2010 in his mid eighties resident in a home for people suffering extreme dementia where he had been resident for almost a decade.
So this guy's arguement is that an eminent philosopher in his dotage turned to god and that proves everything else he ever said while still sane was irrelevant.
What a convincing arguement.

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I think that you are posting drivel from a site written by a carpenter and mason worker from his home in Canada, which speaks volumes of the relevance of this site. Flew did not convince me at all in his book because his arguments were flimsy, mostly philosophic rather than scientific.

@dave1459 the asking to learn card.

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"Intelligent" design.

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Never heard of the guy. So he changed his mind about god due to science. Did he have objective evidence that any god was real? Did the fear of death with no afterlife scare him?

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Flew was a famous British philosopher of religion. As I understand him, his long-term view was that there is no evidence whatever that would tend either to verify or falsify the claim that God exists, so it is a meaningless claim. However, as science progressed he came to believe that it did provide evidence that would tend to verify it (along the lines of special design). But I don't think this was the God of popular religion.

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Flew's arguments from his atheist days stand by themselves.
[commonsenseatheism.com]

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Anyone convinced by the watchmaker analogy doesn't understand evolution AT ALL.

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"There is more and more evidence....." And what, author of said piece would any of that be. A little name dropping or citations wouldn't get you lumped into the "some people say" category of bullshit.

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I remember reading Flew as an undergraduate philosopher. It seems he suffered from some mental debility in his later years. The Wikipedia entry gives a good summation:
[en.wikipedia.org]

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I think Pink Floyd said it best,
But it was only fantasy
The wall was too high
As you can see
No matter how he tried
He could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain

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Just another person with opinions.
He clearly changed his mind about what he believed, and gave in to fear.

Not unlike many, but no better than anyone else.

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