Flew Speaks Out: Professor Antony Flew Reviews The God Delusion

jeffmooney — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:35:45 +0000

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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Flew Speaks Out: Professor Antony Flew Reviews The God Delusion