Re: [asa] Looking for Anthony Flew quote

There is a lot of information on Flew's "conversion" and the direction it may have taken here:
http://www.secweb.org/index.aspx?action=viewAsset&id=369

It includes the quote:

"In the [August 2005} Think article and the new introduction to God and Philosophy Flew does
offer some encouraging words for Aristotelian Deism, but he never affirms his belief in it nor
says whether he considers any arguments for it successful. For instance, he says things like "the
expectations of natural reason must surely be that an omnipotent Creator would be as detached
and uninvolved as the gods of Epicurus" (p. 81, my emphasis), not "that an omnipotent Creator
is as detached and uninvolved." Flew never actually says in this article or in the new edition of
God and Philosophy whether he believes an omnipotent Creator exists, only that "if" he did
"then" he would be "detached and uninvolved." Then Flew repeats his belief that "there is an
enormous yet very rarely recognized difficulty with the very conception of 'A person without a
body (i.e. a spirit)'" (p. 81)

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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:26:43 EDT
Subject: [asa] Looking for Anthony Flew quote

> My search skills must be deteriorating.
>
> I'm 99% sure that, sometime in the past 2 years or so, we have
> discussed on
> this list the "conversion" of atheist philosopher Anthony Flew to
> theism,
> having been convinced by the argument from design.
> In that discussion, I recall somebody posting an excerpt from something
>
> where Flew recently gave his opinion of Christianity in a way that
> demonstrated
> he was still very, very far from the Kingdom of Heaven. Can somebody
> point me
> to this quote?
>
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