Who is the Being having intelligence and a purpose for humanity?

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Philosophy professor bases new belief on scientific evidence

By Richard N. Ostling

Associated Press

 

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 says so on a video released Thursday.

 

At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, 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's 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. "

 

Flew first made his mark with the 1950 article " Theology and

Falsification, " based on a paper for the Socratic Club, a weekly

Oxford religious forum led by writer and Christian thinker C.S.

Lewis.

 

Over the years, Flew proclaimed the lack of evidence for God while

teaching at Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele, and Reading universities in

Britain, in visits to numerous U.S. and Canadian campuses and in

books, articles and debates.

 

There was no one moment of change but a gradual conclusion over

recent months for Flew, a spry man who still does not believe in an

afterlife.

 

Yet biologists' investigation of DNA " has shown, by the almost

unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to

produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved, " Flew says

in the new video, " Has Science Discovered God? "

 

The video draws from a New York discussion last May organized by

author Roy Abraham Varghese's Institute for Metascientific Research

in Garland, Texas. Participants were Flew; Varghese; Israeli

physicist Gerald Schroeder, an Orthodox Jew; and Roman Catholic

philosopher John Haldane of Scotland's University of St. Andrews.

 

The first hint of Flew's turn was a letter to the August-September

issue of Britain's Philosophy Now magazine. " It has become

inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a

naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing

organism, " he wrote.

 

The letter commended arguments in Schroeder's " The Hidden Face of

God " and " The Wonder of the World " by Varghese, an Eastern Rite

Catholic layman.

 

This week, Flew finished writing the first formal account of his new

outlook for the introduction to a new edition of his " God and

Philosophy, " scheduled for release next year by Prometheus Books.

 

Prometheus specializes in skeptical thought, but if his belief upsets

people, well " that's too bad, " Flew said. " My whole life has been

guided by the principle of Plato's Socrates: Follow the evidence,

wherever it leads. " ...

 

Flew told The Associated Press his current ideas have some similarity

with American " intelligent design " theorists, who see evidence for a

guiding force in the construction of the universe. He accepts

Darwinian evolution but doubts it can explain the ultimate origins of

life.

 

A Methodist minister's son, Flew became an atheist at 15. Early in

his career, he argued that no conceivable events could constitute

proof against God for believers, so skeptics were right to wonder

whether the concept of God meant anything at all.

 

Another landmark was his 1984 " The Presumption of Atheism, " playing

off the presumption of innocence in criminal law. Flew said the

debate over God must begin by presuming atheism, putting the burden

of proof on those arguing that God exists.

 

Philosophy professor bases new belief on scientific evidence

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So who is the Being having intelligence and a purpose for humanity?

Only the Shakti's Great Event ordained for humanity answers this

question. The Last Judgment and Resurrection ordained for humanity

guarantees to displace the darkness of souls and grant salvation in

this lifetime.

 

For more than three decades the Shakti's incarnation on earth in the

form of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has declared and explained in

detail the Great Event ordained for all humanity. The Last Judgment

and Resurrection promises both bodily resurrection (kundalini

awakening) and spiritual immortality (moksa).

 

" Tagore comes closest to us, though, when he calls on his Western

friends to imagine a world in which East and West give each other

spiritual gifts free of imperialistic coercion, a world in which

science is honored but spiritual and human values rule. When our

universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it is as

truth, we feel it as beauty, " Tagore told Einstein in 1930. Coming

from a man with few illusions about either East or West, this noble

sentiment sounds less like pure idealism than a hard-won way of

living decently in a violent century. Tagore's gift for us today,

splendidly presented in this anthology, is his insistence on

speaking for the highest human values and loftiest human aims. At a

time when our public discourses have descended into the mud of

marketspeak and realpolitik, we need Tagore's courageous and

undeceived conviction that we were born for something wildly and

brilliantly better. " (Jon Spayde, The Forgotten Genius (March/April

98 Utne Reader)

 

And the great Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi declares: " I was

born at this time where I have to do this job of telling you that

you must get your transformation. . . . The human being is not an

ignoble being. He is the epitome of all evolution. "

 

Only the Shakti has the intelligence to reveal the deepest secrets

of scriptural parables that promise a divine purpose for humanity.

 

Jai Shri Mataji,

 

 

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