Book review: There Is a God

[leathercubster]

On Sunday I finished reading There Is a God - How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind by Antony Flew. Flew was a highly regarded philosopher of religion and taught in many academies in England and North America. He was one of very few philosophers in the past century that could intelligently make a case for atheism and produced

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[kevynjacobs]

I've never heard of this Flew guy.

IMHO, belief in God is an outdated and maladaptive meme complex.

[leathercubster]

Only to atheistic philosophers is Flew well known - not to the popular atheism you see today coming from Dawkins, Hitchens, etc. so I'm not surprised you haven't heard of him. He didn't have the same popularity as Bertrand Russell before him but he certainly was respected among intellectual atheists. I remember hearing about him years ago when he debated William Lane Craig on the existence of God.

Check Wikipedia for some info on Antony Flew and if you get a chance, check out his classic works which influenced how atheists to this day do their arguments. It certainly pissed off some when he defected and became a deist.

[mr_kitten]

This is the third deist/Buddhist thing today in and around my internet experience.
Like this

[leathercubster]

Flew had his reasons for being a deist as outlined in the book and the interviews he gave. I'm afraid there is nothing in the book about Buddhism but since Buddhism is essentially agnostic/atheist in some of it's teachings, Flew would likely have rejected it.