RE: CT article: Darwinists, not Christians, stonewalling the facts

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
> Behalf Of gordon brown
> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 2:58 PM
> To: Hon Wai Lai
> Cc: asa@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: CT article: Darwinists, not Christians, stonewalling the
> facts
>
>
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Hon Wai Lai wrote:
>
> > 3. Does anyone know what exactly convinced the former atheist Antony
> > Flew of theism? In an interview, he did refer to "intelligent design",
> > but did he mean ID as advocated by the Johnson/Dembski/Behe, or was he
> > referring to the more traditional teleological argument (i.e. argument
> > from design, dating back to William Paley)
> >
>
> I read the interview on the Talbot web site. My recollection is that the
> reasons he gave there were Big Bang cosmology, fine tuning of the
> universe, and DNA.
>

Flew's interview last week on BBC Radio 3 pretty much had the same
conclusion. Flew emphasized that he did not believe in an afterlife, though.
Such a thought would push him closer to the God of the Bible rather than his
more comfortable Aristotelian god. Flew found it amusing that he was a
consternation both to Atheists and Christians.
Received on Mon Mar 28 22:23:37 2005