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Has famous atheist philosopher Antony Flew really said scientific evidence suggests that life and the universe are the product of intelligent design? Jonathan Witt has the details. Excerpt...
The dogmatic materialists at Rationalist International don't want to let go of former atheist Antony Flew.
The man Richard Carrier of Secular Web calls "one of the most renowned atheists of the 20th century" now says scientific evidence suggests that life and the universe are the product of intelligent design. To counter the plain facts of this development, Rationalist International has constructed a "news bulletin" prominently dated Dec. 12. The news bulletin has everything but news.
The Flew material they quote is two months old. And Flew's article they post is three years old. But they claim, "It is still now his latest official position in this regard." Flew's most recent statements to the AP and to the journal Philosophia Christi show otherwise.
"I think the argument to Intelligent Design is enormously stronger than it was when I first met it," Flew says. He accepts only the God of Aristotle or Jefferson, the unspecified designer of philosophy, but that in no way compromises his growing appreciation for the science of intelligent design. As Flew also says, "It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design."
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