Anthony Flew reverses course

Flew's fate
Actually, Flew has been rethinking the arguments for a Designer for several
years. When I saw him in London in the spring of 2003, he told me he was still
an atheist but was impressed by Intelligent Design theorists. By early 2004 he
had made the move to deism. Surprisingly, he gives first place to Aristotle in
having the most significant impact on him. "I was not a specialist on
Aristotle, so I was reading parts of his philosophy for the first time." He was
aided in this by The Rediscovery of Wisdom, a work on Aristotle by David
Conway, one of Flew's former students.


Flew also cites the influence of Gerald Schroeder, an Israeli physicist, and Roy
Abraham Varghese, author of The Wonder of the World and an Eastern Rite
Catholic. Flew appeared with both scientists at a New York symposium last May
where he acknowledged his changed conviction about the necessity for a Creator.
In the broader picture, both Varghese and Schroeder, author of The Hidden Face
of God, argue from the fine-tuning of the universe that it is impossible to
explain the origin of life without God. This forms the substance of what led
Flew to move away from Darwinian naturalism.
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