Imagine Richard Dawkins renouncing atheism. Something very similar happened in 2004. Antony Flew was, for several decades, a prominant atheist author and philosopher. In 2004, he announced that he had changed his views: he had become a deist.

Why? He said there was too much evidence.

His story is fascinating. In these videos, Lee Strobel (a Christian author who had originally set out to disprove Christianity before being convinced of the evidence himself) interviews Flew.

Why did your beliefs change?

The afterlife:

In the above video, just before halfway, Flew says something many atheists would think astonishing:

Strobel: “Bertrand Russell said there’s a lack of evidence, but you found enough to believe that there is an intelligence of some sort, so you’ve come further than he did”
Flew: “Yes, but circumstances have come further… I mean, there’s been a gigantic advance in the sciences since the death of Bertrand Russell.”

Isn’t that incredible? He says, in essence, that we must excuse Russell’s mistake, since he didn’t have access to the evidence we do. View more videos here

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