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Antony Flew & Roy Abraham Varghese - HarperOne ·

God Exists: How the World's Most Famous Atheist Changed His Mind

Antony Flew & Roy Abraham Varghese - HarperOne

Of Antony Flew & Roy Abraham Varghese - HarperOne

A striking intellectual and autobiographical manifesto where Antony Flew, who for more than half a century was universally recognized as the most influential Anglo-Saxon atheist philosopher in the world, formally explains the purely empirical and analytical arguments that forced him to renounce militant atheism to accept the existence of a sovereign and self-existing creator God. Flew details that his honest submission to the Socratic principle of 'following the evidence wherever it leads' led him to conclude that the incredible informational complexity of functional DNA (a literal linguistic and semantic code) and the extreme cosmic fine-tuning of the universe are totally incompatible with mechanistic and chance naturalism. The treatise demonstrates how honest empirical scrutiny inevitably leads to the recognition of the divine Logos.
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The intellectual conversion of Professor Antony Flew constitutes, without the slightest rhetorical exaggeration, one of the most significant and devastating philosophical events of the twenty-first century for the cause of organized militant atheism. When the most brilliant, the most respected, and the most feared of all academic defenders of the nonexistence of God publicly declares, after half a century of honest reflection, that empirical evidence has led him inexorably to accept the reality of a creative Intelligence, the blow dealt to the intellectual edifice of philosophical naturalism is so profound and so structural that no amount of subsequent media propaganda can repair the fractured foundation. What is truly admirable and worthy of all praise in this case is not simply the conclusion Flew reached, but the ruthlessly honest method he used to arrive at it. Flew always professed an unwavering Socratic principle: follow the evidence wherever it leads, regardless of the personal, social or reputational consequences that path entails. This radical commitment to objective truth radically distinguished him from the vast majority of contemporary atheist thinkers, who operate under a materialist dogmatism so ironclad and so blind that it is indistinguishable, in its psychological structure, from the worst forms of religious fanaticism that they themselves seek to combat with so much media din. The specific arguments that precipitated Flew's conversion deserve detailed attention because they expose, in crystal clear fashion, the insurmountable fissures of contemporary naturalism. Firstly, the informational complexity of the genetic code of DNA turned out to be an absolutely insurmountable epistemological obstacle for any purely mechanistic or chance explanation. As Flew openly acknowledged, the presence of a digitized information system of unimaginable sophistication within every living cell demands, by sheer formal logic, an earlier intelligent source. Reducing the spontaneous emergence of a four-letter coded language capable of directing the construction and maintenance of biological organisms of astonishing complexity to mere random chemical reactions is nothing more than an act of blind faith disguised as empirical science. Second, fine tuning the fundamental cosmological constants of the universe (so-called 'Fine Tuning') presented Flew with an insurmountable logical dilemma. The materialist alternative to the teleological explanation consisted of postulating the existence of a mathematically infinite number of unobservable parallel universes (the famous 'multiverse'), a hypothesis that, as Flew himself pointed out with ironic acuity, requires an immensely greater leap of faith than the simple acceptance of an intelligent Designer. Invoking unobservable entities of infinite cosmic magnitude to avoid the obvious and elegant conclusion of a rational Creator constitutes a flagrant violation of Ockham's Razor that would embarrass any first-year student of analytical philosophy. The reaction of the atheist establishment to Flew's conversion was as revealing as it was shameful from an ethical and academic point of view. Instead of confronting his arguments with the intellectual rigor that the occasion demanded, the most prominent spokespersons for media atheism chose to personally attack the elderly philosopher, cowardly insinuating that his advanced age had deteriorated his mental faculties. This strategy of personal defamation in place of rational argument demonstrates, with painful clarity, that contemporary atheism has ceased to be a serious philosophical position and has become a closed ideological movement, incapable of tolerating internal dissent and willing to destroy the reputation of anyone who dares to question its fundamental dogmas from within. The permanent lesson that this book leaves burned into the conscience of the honest reader is one of overwhelming simplicity: the truth has no political party, does not respect academic careers and does not submit to intellectual fashions. If the most atheist man on the planet could surrender to the force of evidence and publicly acknowledge that he had been wrong for fifty years, any person of good will who examines the same data with the same intellectual honesty will inevitably come to the same liberating conclusion. Legal Note: This critical analysis is carried out under the protection of Art. 28 (news of general interest) and Art. 10 (right of citation) of Law 11,723 on Intellectual Property of the Argentine Republic. The original work and its title belong to its respective author and publication medium, cited on this page.