Focused Link: Concerning Philosophers and Moths

If philosophy is a search for wisdom, then a true philosopher who philosophizes long enough will surely find at least a glimpse of the enticing goal that first animated his search.

The full article:
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/science/sc0075.html

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Philosopher Anthony Flew, formerly known to the academic world as a leading proponent of atheism and defender of Darwinian Evolution, has told the Associated Press in a recent interview that he has now come to believe in the existence of God.

Professor Flew, who taught for several years at Toronto's York University after retiring from full professorships in England, has come to the conclusion that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. He had stated in the September issue of Philosophy Now that, "It has become inordinately difficult even to begin to think about constructing a naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first reproducing organism."

Flew reasoned that a god or divine intelligence of some kind must exist in order to explain extremely complex biological systems such as the DNA molecule. The recognition that the irrefutable evidence of design implies the existence of a Designer is a major step in the pursuit of wisdom.

Nonetheless, Professor Flew's god, as he explains, is the god of deism, the Enlightenment's divine "watchmaker" who, after he creates the world and winds it up, then abandons it. This is clever, but heartless god, one worthy of admiration, but certainly not adoration.