There is a God, leading atheist concludes

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NEW YORK - A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of

atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now believes

in God — more or less — based on scientific evidence, and he says so on a

video released Thursday.

 

At age 81, after decades of insisting that belief is a mistake, the

professor, Antony Flew, has concluded that some sort of intelligence or

first cause must have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only

good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew

said in a telephone interview from England.

 

Flew said he was best labeled a deist, like Thomas Jefferson, whose God was

not actively involved in people’s lives.

 

“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.”