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Does modern science undermine atheism? Prominent atheist Antony Flew has announced that the latest science convinces him some sort of God exists after all. Religious scientist Roy Varghese and non-believer Christopher Hitchens debate his rethinking.(Two Views)

The American Enterprise

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YES IT DOES: Roy Varghese

The most famous atheist in the academic world over the last half century, Professor Antony Flew of England's University of Reading, now accepts the likelihood that some sort of Deity brought the universe into existence.

Flew's paper, "Theology and Falsification," which grew out of a 1950 presentation to the Socratic Club chaired by none other than C. S. Lewis, set the agenda for modern atheism. Now, in a remarkable evolution, Flew accepts the existence of a God who "possesses most of the usual defining characteristics of omnipotence, omniscience, immateriality." His new-found "Deism" is the product not of a personal conversion, ...

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