Flew's acknowledgement of theism was greeted with not a little scepticism by some of his former atheistic comrades.
'After all these years of opposing the idea of a Creator, he reverses his position on the basis of the evidence.' įlew's change of mind is big news, 'not only about his personal journey, but also about the persuasive power of the arguments modern theists have been using to challenge atheistic naturalism', says philosopher Craig J. ' 'It speaks very well of Professor Flew's honesty,' observes America's pre-eminent philosopher of religion, Alvin Plantinga. Flew has changed his mind, and has let it be known that he is now a theist (at least in the broad sense of the term) because, 'the case for an Aristotelian God who has the characteristics of power and also intelligence, is now much stronger than it ever was before.' įlew says that he simply, 'had to go where the evidence leads.' His atheism truly was provisional and 'subject to correction by further evidence and further argument. In recent years, Flew has been called: 'the world's most influential philosophical atheist.' Writing on the Secular Web, Richard Carrier acknowledges Flew as, 'one of the most renowned atheists of the 20th Century, even making the shortlist of "Contemporary Atheists" at .'
One can read several debates in which Flew argues for atheism against Christian philosophers such as William Lane Craig, Gary R. In other words, nature (probably) explains everything about itself that is explicable, and so there is no need to believe in any sort of Creator. Though as always subject to correction by further evidence and further argument, that the universe itself is ultimate and, hence, that whatever science may from time to time hold to be the most fundamental laws of nature, must, equally provisionally, be taken as the last words in any series of answers to questions as to why things are as they are. Professor Antony Flew, 81 years old, is: “a legendary British philosopher and atheist and has been an icon and champion for unbelievers for decades.” In his most famous book, God and Philosophy, Flew concluded:
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