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Like a lot of people I grew up with the view that the evidence was pretty clear- that God was at best a mild possibility and most likely just not real. I was not a great science student so I can't really say my view was based on science. No I guess it was just the vibe I picked up. At school, on the TV, in the paper and amongst my friends God was unlikely. Like many I punted for agnosticism. I did not have the time or desire to prove that God did not exist, so it was easy to just say I was not sure.
What I did not know was that people like Dr Antony Flew shaped my adolescent ideas. Flew has been one of the great intellectual atheists. One US newspaper described Flew as, "a British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century." Indeed Flew has debated many Christians over the decades to attempt to debunk their foolish beliefs. Some have described Flew as the " Billy Graham "of atheism. Not just sure in his own disbelief he has always been zealous to try and convince others. Flew was the son of a Methodist minister and became a committed atheist at aged 15. His views and those of people like him underpin the agnosticism and atheism that remains so prevalent today.
When I became a Christian as a young adult I became convinced that God was real and important. For me the key was the person of Jesus. I became convinced that he existed in history. That is death, a hideous unjust crime, actually happened and had a purpose in offering me forgiveness for my sins. I came to see that Jesus resurrection was the most likely explanation for the facts. In short, I came to believe that the old book, the Bible was reliable at revealing truth and a roadmap for peace with God. So my conversion was complete and agnosticism was abandoned. A new conviction of truth however also included doubt. " Why do so many still reject God"? " Why does it seem the prevailing view is still against the existence of God, when I now believe the evidence is so convincing?" " Why are people so bedded in an atheistic Darwinianism when my senses bombard me with a creation with such design?"
Well would you believe that at 82 years of age the atheist Antony Flew has changed his mind? After 67 years of zealous atheism Flew has now adopted a view that the world was created by an intelligent design. Flew would not described himself as a Christian but rather as a theist (a believer in God) or maybe even a Deist like Thomas Jefferson, whose God was not actively involved in people's lives. But the fact that Anthony Flew has finally seen the folly of atheism is incredible. We can only hope that these academic paradigm shifts will one-day filter down into popular perception.
Belief in God may well be making a very overdue comeback.
The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." Psalm 14: 1
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