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  • Jul. 4th, 2008 at 8:36 AM
Calvin
I just read an account of how long time atheist Anthony Flew has revised his views and become a theist. I studied several of Flew's arguments in my time studying philosophy; particularly his neo humean arguments for the irrationality of belief in God. So this came as something of a surprise to me.

I was particularly interested in the following:
While still rejecting the concept of special revelation, whether Christian, Jewish or Islamic, nonetheless he had concluded that theism was true. In Flew’s words, he simply “had to go where the evidence leads.”

Flew is, or was, by far the best atheist writer I have read. Light years ahead of the likes of Dawkins (who's senseless rantings in the God Delusion make me feel like I am reading a bad blog) or Hitchens (who wrote God is not Good) who seems to want to emulate Dawkin's "I can shout louder than you form of 'philosophy'".

I'll be interested to read Flew's latest work "There is a God" to see how he puts it.

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