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Former Atheist Antony Flew

The British philosopher Antony Flew, known as an aggressive atheist caused a stir in 2004 when he dared to publicly acknowledge for intellectual reasons be moved away from the position of atheism in order to represent a variant of Deism.

(last "article") In one of his last written contributions Flew has spoken to Richard Dawkins' book The God Delusion (The God Delusion). Excerpts of his comments (translated by Deike Sumann, copies of theo blog: Antony Flew
criticized the book: The God Delusion ):

The mistake that Dawkins as an academic has made his scandalous and apparently deliberate refusal to explain the doctrine, which he believes to have irrevocably refuted. We find, for example in its index four references to Einstein. They are therefore in the guise of Einstein and deal with what he thinks about morality, a personal God and the situation of mankind and of his view that man for others and above all that is there, depends on their well-being of our joy . But (and it is hard for me to moderate this darkening refusal Dawkins'zu write), he mentioned Einstein's most important conclusion at all: namely, that the integrated complexity of the world of physics has convinced him that there must be a divine intelligence behind things. if this argument can be applied to the world of physics, I personally find it obvious that it must be even more significant when it is applied to the immeasurably more complicated world of biology.



... The whole affair can be all too clear that Dawkins is not interested in truth, but that it mainly comes to bringing an ideological opponent by any means a bad name. That alone would have reason to believe enough that the whole enterprise The God Delusion is not, as claimed, at least, an attempt was to know about the existence or nonexistence reveal God and to spread, but more of a - very successful - attempt the beliefs of disseminate author in this field. A less important point that should be made at this point is that although the list of The God Delusion six references to Deism contains, it provides no definition of the word 'deism'. This allows Dawkins in his references to the Deists Deism as a collection of people present who believe in anything. The fact is, and that would have Dawkins should know, before this book went to press, that Deists believe in the existence of a God, but not in a God that would have disclosed in any form.

Source: theo blog: Antony Flew
criticized the book: The God Delusion