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"As people have certainly been influenced by me, I want to try and cor-
rect the enormous damage I may have done." -Anthony Flew
In the face of the complex structure in DNA, the famous atheist Anthony Flew
admitted that the atheism he had espoused for 66 years was a theory in col-
lapse. The 81-year-old British philosopher adopted atheism at the age of 15,
and first made his mark on the academic world with a paper published in 1950.
Over the next 54 years, he defended atheism in debates at the universities of
Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele and Reading where he taught, at a large number of
Canadian and American universities he visited, and in books, classes and ar-
ticles.
Recently, however, Flew abandoned his error and admitted that the universe
had been created. In The Sunday Times, he was quoted as saying this about
the theory of evolution:
I have been persuaded that it is simply out of the question that the first liv-
ing matter evolved out of dead matter and then developed into an ex-
traordinarily complicated creature. 1
What influenced this radical
about-face was the definitive
proofs of creation revealed by
modern science. In the face of
the information-based com-
plexity of life, Flew concluded
that life had been conscious-
ly created, and set out the
scientific causes underly-
ing this change of belief:
