franky172
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Joined: Jan. 2007
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Now that Anthony Flew believes in a God, the IDers love him. Dembski quotes some of "There Is a God" here:
http://www.uncommondescent.com/philoso....he-game
Now I am certainly not as much a philosopher of Dr. Flew, but some of the points he makes seem like the rantings of someone who never understood the atheism he espoused:
| Quote | | I therefore put to my former fellow-atheists the simple central question: ‘What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a reason to at least consider the existence of a superior Mind? |
What kind of atheist was Flew if he never "at least considered" the existence of a "superior mind"? I am an atheist and "consider the existence of a superior mind" daily; I consistently fail to find reason to believe in such a thing, however.
Flew goes on to posit three "evidences" for God:
| Quote | | The first is the fact that nature obeys laws. |
What else would nature obey?
| Quote | | The second is the dimension of life, of intelligently organized and purpose-driven beings, which arose from matter. |
So since we don't know how the first self-replicating creatures were formed, God? Or is Dr. Flew trying to make a different point here?
| Quote | | The third is the very existence of nature. |
What else would exist?
| Quote | | I have also been helped by a renewed study of the classical philosophical arguments. |
The argument from ontology, perhaps? Perhaps the argument from first cause? Shocking stuff.
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