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NEW YORK - A British philosophy professor (Antony Flew) who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now believes in God — more or less — based on scientific evidence, and says so on a video released Thursday. "I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of the Christian and..."
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http://www.secweb.org/asset.asp?AssetID=369 The moderns seeing sense in the ancients, at last our selfwilled stupidity is clearing
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"The fact of the matter is: Flew hasn't really decided what to believe. He affirms that he is not a Christian--he is still quite certain that the Gods of Christianity or Islam do not exist, that there is no revealed religion, and definitely no afterlife of any kind."
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"[H]e is increasingly persuaded that some sort of Deity brought about this universe, though it does not intervene in human affairs, nor does it provide any postmortem salvation. He says he has in mind something like the God of Aristotle, a distant, impersonal 'prime mover.' It might not even be conscious, but a mere force. In formal terms, he regards the existence of this minimal God as a hypothesis that, at present, is perhaps the best explanation for why a universe exists that can produce complex life."
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so to answer the question, no.
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[isth] well that's a revelation I'd never thought of before. [est]
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The thought of my fingers discussing whether or not I exist and assuring one another that I don't, or if I do, that it's only in a marignal way..is just funny, that's all. : )
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Welcome back bsc, it just occured to me that you and dafremen may be the same person?
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Only on my own spelling errors. : ) I don't read enough to notice anyone else's. : (
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what's it to you?
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