Antony Flew and Atheism

Antony Flew, who died on April 8, had been through most of his philosophical career an atheist. His famous paper “Theology and Falsification” (1950) questioned the intelligibility of belief in a loving God. In his last years, however, Flew changed his views. He now thought that the fine-tuning of the universe and the difficulty of explaining the origin of life on a naturalistic basis made it likely that a divine creator of the universe existed. Flew’s intellectual integrity made him follow the argument wherever it led, even if  it required him to change the positions of a lifetime.

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12:13 pm on April 14, 2010