Famous Atheist Now Believes in God:
One of World’s Leading Atheists Now Believes in God, More or Less, Based on Scientific EvidenceNEW YORK Dec 9, 2004 — 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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There was no one moment of change but a gradual conclusion over recent months for Flew, a spry man who still does not believe in an afterlife.Yet biologists’ investigation of DNA “has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved,” Flew says in the new video, “Has Science Discovered God?”
There you have it, because he cannot understand DNA, the world, the universe and other complex systems, a supernatural entity must have created it. Of course that is the only logical conclusion. It is elementary my dear Watson.
Go back in time with me, 200 years into the past. Imagine if you will, standing in front of a group of individuals who say that because you cannot explain why various chemicals behave in certain ways, that the only way to explain their actions is through an outside source known as g-o-d.
It’s the classic, I have no idea what in the world is going on, so instead of doing the hard work of coming up with a testable hypothesis, I’ll invoke the time honored tradition of a god in the gaps.
Not sure why your car won’t start this morning? God chose to not let it. Of course, isn’t the opposite just as insightful? Not sure why your car started this morning? God chose to let it.
I’m so close to tenureship I can almost taste it!