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Re: Intelligent Design and Why Not
There is a discusssion regarding Intelligent Design at the Pat Metheny website for you jazz fans. It is clear that no amount of evidence (fossils from other universes withstanding) will change the mind of an IDer or Creationist. I suppose one could argue that this is as it should be for their beliefs are not based upon what evidence tells.
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OTH, that once prominent old atheist, Antony Flew, seems to have changed his beliefs, based on the evidence no less! |
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Point taken Fred and thank you for that information on Flew which I was not aware of.
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http://www.behavior.net/bolforums/sh...=2833#post2833 Here is an excerpt: Quote:
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Scott S.—thanks for the kind acknowledgement.
Note to TomJ—you keep posting lame stuff like that and I might have to retract my flattering remarks regarding you being Ãœbermensch. FYI, Antony Flew wasn’t just any atheist (and unlike Todd, Flew actually was an honest-to-god atheist). For decades, he was a dominant figure in the philosophy of religion, among the most influential of atheist philosophers. He lectured on philosophy at the University of Oxford and the University of Aberdeen, and subsequently held professorships at the University of Keele and the University of Reading. He is the author of the celebrated essays “Theology and Falsification†and “The Presumption of Atheismâ€, and many monographs including Atheistic Humanism and Merely Mortal?: Can You Survive Your Own Death?. He has also represented atheism in published oral debates with William Lane Craig, Gary Habermas, and Thomas Warren. |
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I've read that recently, Flew retracted the basis for becoming a deist, though he did not retract becoming a deist.
"I now realize that I have made a fool of myself by believing that there were no presentable theories of the development of inanimate matter up to the first living creature capable of reproduction." I thought it was note worthy. |
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Re: Intelligent Design and Why Not
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While Wikipedia doesn’t seem to have much on “presentable theories,†there’s this blip on “good theoriesâ€: Quote:
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