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tonyrey
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I shall always be grateful to Antony Flew because I advanced academically due to my critique of his book God and Philosophy - in which he described purpose as an extremely rare phenomenon! Even as an atheist he regarded reductive materialism as obviously false… 
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Call_Me_V
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R.I.P. Antony Flew.
He was a great philosopher regardless of what side he was on. Several of his works are still considered some of the greatest non-theistic literature ever written, even after his conversion. He was a great man.
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R.I.P. Antony Flew.
He was a great philosopher regardless of what side he was on. Several of his works are still considered some of the greatest non-theistic literature ever written, even after his conversion. He was a great man.
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foolishmortal
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So, he was no Hitchens or Dawkins of his time? What about Muggeridge and Chesterton, when they were non-believers in God?
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Call_Me_V
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Putting Antony Flew(a respected philosopher) in the same category as Hitchens or Dawkins (who are loud mouthed buffoons) is like putting William Lane Craig in the same category as Duane Gish. There’s no comparison. Flew was superior to Hitchens and Dawkins in every way.
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foolishmortal
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I don’t know who those last two people are. I’ll have to look them up.
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Call_Me_V
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William Lane Craig and Duane Gish? I put a link to their respective Wikipedia pages in my last post, where their names where.
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tonyrey
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I entirely agree. He was very often right in his statements:
“Foreknowledge alone is not necessarily incompatible with free will”
although he mistakenly believed that God must be:
" the controller of every thought and action throughout his utterly dependent universe".
It did not occur to him that omnipotence implies the possibility of sharing power!
He was also correct in his view that not all evil in the world can be justified by the need for “soul-making” but that is understandable in view of his scepticism about life after death. It’s a pity he cannot express his views to us now! Like all atheists he helped us by forcing us to examine our beliefs and refining them where necessary. His life ended on a positive note:
“I think that the most impressive arguments for God’s existence are those that are supported by recent scientific discoveries … I think the argument to Intelligent Design is enormously stronger than it was when I first met it.”
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