Update: See this January 2004 interview with Flew in which he explains his change of mind in more detail. (Hat tip to commenter Gottfried at the Pontificator blog.)
From a story by Associated Press religion writer Richard N. Ostling:
A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind. He now believes in God — more or less — based on scientific evidence, and says so on a video released Thursday.
At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. A super-intelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew said in a telephone interview from England.
Flew said he’s best labeled a deist like Thomas Jefferson, whose God was not actively involved in people’s lives. * * *
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