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Antony Garrard Newton Flew fue un filósofo inglés. Perteneciente a las escuelas del pensamiento analíticas y evidencialistas, notable por sus trabajos en filosofía de la religión.

Sirvió en la Royal Air Force durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Estudió japonés en la Escuela de Estudios Orientales y Africanos de 1942 a 1943, antes de incorporarse al Servicio de Inteligencia de la RAF hasta el cese de las hostilidades en 1945. Después de la guerra, se graduó en el St. John's College de Oxford, en 1947. Hizo su doctorado con Gilbert Ryle, tras lo cual trabajó como profesor de filosofía en Christ Church, Oxford, de 1949 a 1950. De 1950 a 1954, fue profesor de filosofía moral en la Universidad de Aberdeen, y luego se convirtió en profesor de filosofía en la Universidad de Keele en Staffordshire, donde permaneció hasta 1973, momento en el que se trasladó a la Universidad de Reading. Se retiró en 1983, y ocupó un puesto a tiempo parcial en la Universidad de York, Toronto. Pronunció las Conferencias Gifford 1986-1987 en la Universidad de St. Andrews.

Flew fue un gran defensor del ateísmo, argumentando que uno debería presuponer el ateísmo hasta que la evidencia empírica de un Dios apareciera. También criticó la idea de la vida después de la muerte,[2]​ la defensa del libre albedrío al problema del mal, y el sin sentido del concepto de Dios.[3]​ Sin embargo, en 2004 planteó su acercamiento al deísmo[4]​ y más tarde escribió el libro There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind , con contribuciones de Roy Abraham Varghese. Este libro ha sido sujeto de controversia, ya que de acuerdo a un artículo en la revista New York Times, Flew está disminuido mentalmente y que Varghese fue el autor principal.[5]​ El asunto continúa en discusión con algunos comentaristas incluyendo a PZ Myers y Richard Carrier apoyando dicho argumento y otros [6]​ oponiéndose.

Antony Flew, de quien se ha dicho que fue “el ateo más influyente del mundo", aseguró después creer en Dios. En un adelanto en Internet de una entrevista que se publicó en la revista Philosophia Christi, el doctor en Filosofía Antony Flew, de 81 años, dijo que “tuvo que rendirse ante la evidencia de los hechos”. Según Flew, tales hechos incluyen recientes descubrimientos científicos en los campos de la cosmología y de la física. Además, explicó: “Los hallazgos realizados durante más de cincuenta años de investigación del ADN sirven de base para nuevos y poderosísimos argumentos a favor del diseño”. Declaró también que incluso el “relato bíblico [del capítulo uno de Génesis] podría ser exacto desde el punto de vista científico”. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. febrero 1923 – 8. abril 2010
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Antony Flew: Frases en inglés

“What would have to occur or to have occurred to constitute for you a disproof of the love of, or the existence of, God?”

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Theology and Falsification, 1950

“The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.”

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Antony Flew, "The Terrors of Islam", Atheist Notes No. 6, 2004, ISBN 1856372928

“The God Delusion by the atheist writer Richard Dawkins, is remarkable in the first place for having achieved some sort of record by selling over a million copies. But what is much more remarkable than that economic achievement is that the contents – or rather lack of contents – of this book show Dawkins himself to have become what he and his fellow secularists typically believe to be an impossibility: namely, a secularist bigot. (Helpfully, my copy of The Oxford Dictionary defines a bigot as ‘an obstinate or intolerant adherent of a point of view’).”

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Flew's review of The God Delusion

“The term 'fundamentalist', which was coined in 1920, derives from the title of a series of tracts - The Fundamentals - published in the United States from 1910 to 1915. It has since been implicitly defined as meaning a person who believes that, since The Bible is the Word of God, every proposition in it must be true; a belief which, notoriously, is taken to commit fundamentalist Christians to defending the historicity of the accounts of the creation of the Universe given in the first two chapters of Genesis. On this understanding a fully believing Christian does not have to be fundamentalist. Instead it is both necessary and sufficient to accept the Apostles' and/or The Nicene Creed. In Islam, however, the situation is altogether different. For, whereas only a very small proportion of all the propositions contained in the Old and New Testaments are presented as statements made directly by God in any of the three persons of the Trinity, The Koran consists entirely and exclusively of what are alleged to be revelations from Allah (God). Therefore, with regard to The Koran, all Muslims must be as such fundamentalists; and anyone denying anything. asserted in The Koran ceases, ipso facto, to be properly accounted a Muslim. Those whom the media call fundamentalists would therefore better be described as revivalists. This conceptual truth not only places a tight limitation upon the possibilities of developmental change within Islam, as opposed to the tacit or open abandonment of one or more of its original particular claims, but also opens up the theoretical possibility of falsifying the Islamic system as a whole by presenting some known fact which is inconsistent with a Koranic assertion.”

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Turning away from Mecca (The Salisbury Review, Spring 1996) quoted from Goel, Sita Ram (editor) (1998). Freedom of expression: Secular theocracy versus liberal democracy. https://web.archive.org/web/20171026023112/http://www.bharatvani.org:80/books/foe/index.htm

“(Still an atheist at the time) For Heaven's sake…sorry, perhaps I should have said something else.”

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Craig Vs Flew, University of Wisconsin, 1st January 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NixhL0CoH2s

“I would never regard Islam with anything but horror and fear because it is fundamentally committed to conquering the world for Islam.”

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Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew (2009), p. 88

“A less important point which needs to be made in this piece is that although the index of The God Delusion notes six references to Deism it provides no definition of the word ‘deism’. This enables Dawkins in his references to Deism to suggest that Deists are a miscellany of believers in this and that. The truth, which Dawkins ought to have learned before this book went to the printers, is that Deists believe in the existence of a God but not the God of any revelation. In fact the first notable public appearance of the notion of Deism was in the American Revolution.”

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Flew's review of The God Delusion

“The God Delusion by the atheist writer Richard Dawkins, is remarkable in the first place for having achieved some sort of record by selling over a million copies. But what is much more remarkable than that economic achievement is that the contents – or rather lack of contents – of this book show Dawkins himself to have become what he and his fellow secularists typically believe to be an impossibility: namely, a secularist bigot.”

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Helpfully, my copy of The Oxford Dictionary defines a bigot as ‘an obstinate or intolerant adherent of a point of view’
Flew's review of The God Delusion