Antony Flew was a lecturer at the Universities of Oxford and Aberdeen, before posts as Professor of Philosophy at the Universities of Keele and of Reading. He has now retired. He is renowned for his 1950 essay “Theology and Falsification” and his atheistic work, before announcing in 2004 his belief in a Creator God.
Here is an excerpt from Flew’s review of Dawkins’ book.
This whole business makes all too clear that Dawkins is not interested in the truth as such but is primarily concerned to discredit an ideological opponent by any available means. That would itself constitute sufficient reason for suspecting that the whole enterprise of The God Delusion was not, as it at least pretended to be, an attempt to discover and spread knowledge of the existence or non-existence of God but rather an attempt – an extremely successful one – to spread the author’s own convictions in this area.
Read the entire review here.
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that kind of insight (by Flew) always makes me laugh.
By: Joe Humphries on September 29, 2008
at 9:22 am
Dawkins practically sees himself as the atheist messiah. He presents himself as the hero come to rescue the miserable people ignorantly trapped in a religion they secretly hate. Most of the book is about “Christians” more than it is about God, and the four chapters really about the existence of a god consisted of shockingly weak logic.
By: Nik on September 29, 2008
at 3:15 pm