Famous Atheist Now Believes in God

"Famous Atheist Now Believes in God." This is the headline from an AP article last Thursday. I have been writing on atheism the past couple of days and wouldn’t you know it, one of the world’s foremost atheists has second thoughts. Antony Flew, a British philosophy professor, has had a change of mind at 81 years old. Here is an excerpt of a recent interview.

A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature.

That sounds vaguely familiar. This is big enough news that it has caused an instant rebuttal, of sort, but I believe the damage has already been done on this one. Because of the prominence of Flew, his work is frequently cited by atheists attempting to make their case. Time will tell how long that lasts.

In the meantime, remember I mentioned it is up to the theist to make the case for a personal God, for me, the God of the Bible? Sure enough, Flew hasn’t gone that far.

"I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are depicted as omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins," he said. "It could be a person in the sense of a being that has intelligence and a purpose, I suppose."

Oh well, it’s a start.