WOW!!! Antony Flew Believes In God!!!

This is big news!

For decades Antony Flew has been one of the main standard bearers for atheism in the world of philosophy. He has done a ton of work trying to argue atheism, including authoring some of the standard articles on the subject.

His reversal on this subject is certainly cause for rejoicing in heaven.

Unfortunately, that rejocing (as yet) would seem to be incomplete, for Flew has not become a Christian or even a theist. He’s now a deist, meaning that he believes God exists but doesn’t interact with the universe and people’s lives. He also is willing to say harsh things about the Christian image of God (based, I think, on a failure to separate the kind of historically-conditioned imagery the Bible uses for God from the reality toward which these images point).

Still, it’s a major step in the right direction.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

5 thoughts on “WOW!!! Antony Flew Believes In God!!!”

  1. Jimmy, I read your piece on This Rock about the burden of proof. After reading this article, the first question that comes to mind is: why would Flew argue that the burden of proof is on us (i.e. God beleiving people)? and why would he say that “the debate over God must begin by presuming atheism”?
    Any thoughts?
    Miguel

  2. With “Intelligent Design” theories gaining more followers, I think Deism is going to make a come back among scientists in particular.
    ZF

  3. Miguel,
    Antony Flew’s page on the Secular Web site (look at the list of authors) contains an article called ‘The Presumption of Atheism’, which explains his view.

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