I was just about to post this when i realized that I really dont care to much about what others believe in terms of religion. Everyone has their own beliefs and whatnot. Good for him for being able to admit that everything he stood for over the past half century may not be true. That takes some guts.
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At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew said in a telephone interview from England.
Sounds like Flew has thrown in the intellectual towel near the end of the fight. Instead of standing by his guns and being comfortable with there being NO GOOD EXPLANATION, he feels the need to come up with SOME EXPLANATION, so he has accepted this deist answer at the end of his life.
Way to go Flew, you are a DOUCHEBAG OF PHILOSOPHY!
--PunkDavid
_________________ Unfortunately, at the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius, the Flower Children jerked off and went back to sleep.
The way that story is written irritates me a bit. Despite what he may believe, there's no "scientific evidence" that he found to point to god. It's only his completely subjective assertion, and that should have been pointed out more clearly. The belief system of intelligent design is not scientific.
He's also an old man, suddenly finding god near the end of his life. He's not the first.
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"My whole life has been guided by the principle of Plato's Socrates: Follow the evidence, wherever it leads."
Is "I won't be able to figure it out before I die" considered evidence? And besides, if the origin if life is too complex and therefore an indication of a creator...who created the creator?
_________________ When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, "It is done. People did not like it here.''
If you're athiest, why are you going home for Christmas? Shouldn't you just stick around and work?
Yuletime really has nothing to do with Christ, at all.
that... and god forbid someone might want to see their family....
what a stupid thing to say
No it isn't stupid. All year people bitch and piss and moan that *gasp* there will be a Christmas tree downtown or a cross on some highway or something. Put your damned money where your mouth is and don't use a religious holiday given to you.
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