William Dembski
Philosopher Antony Flew used to be the most prominent atheist in the English-speaking world. In the last decade, however, that has changed.
Unlike Flew, who has always been civil and insightful, a new breed of atheists, who are crass and unruly, has supplanted him, notably, Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins. Also, Flew is no longer an atheist.
Flew’s newfound belief in God and his assessment of today’s neo-atheism are both described in his delightful new book (coauthored with Roy Varghese), There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.
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Antony Flew appears not to be a co-author of “his” book “There Is a God.” Flew doesn’t even know what is is most of the book. See http://www.talkreason.org/articles/flew.cfm
Reply to Pau hana from an associate:
Mark Perakh speaks and writes for himself; we can judge his state of mind directly. But these days we hear from Antony Flew only through others.
Flew might or might not have been senile when he inched across the border from outright atheism to the vaguest form of deism. The claim is that, according to Perakh’s evidence, Flew does not even remember the contents of the latest book he has supposedly written. Therefore, we cannot depend upon the book to represent his present views.
Post Notam: The above reply was from “an associate.” An associate of whom, please?
An associate of ours.
Antony Flew and HarperCollins Respond to the New York Times article:
Here is Antony Flew’s response to the claim, made in the NY Times magazine article, that he did not write the book (from a press release issued by the publisher 11/7/2007):
Harper One deputy publisher Mark Tauber adds,
Tauber adds,
Thank you, Associate of Yours, for the citation. Because of the way in which a number of people have attempted to extrapolate Flew’s views beyond what even he says they are, however, I shall remain somewhat susapicious.