Famous Atheist Now Believes in God

Antony Flew, 81, cites intelligent design theory as reason

For those of you who have listened to me sepak on this topic, I am not a proponent of intelligent design theory. In fact, I am very critical of it (see my essay on intellgent design).

However, the argument has won a convert:

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.’

A deistic God, yes. But a God nonetheless.