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THE SKULLS THAT DEMOLISH DARWIN

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As people have certainly been influenced by me, I want to try and correct the
enormous damage I may have done. —Anthony Flew
Anthony Flew, one of the best-known atheist philosophers of his day, admitted that the athe-
ism he had espoused for the previous 66 years was a philosophy that had collapsed in the
face of the complex structure in DNA. The 81-year-old British professor became an atheist
at the age of 15 and first made his name in the academic field with an article published in
1950. Over the next 54 years, he espoused atheism at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen,
Keele and Reading, where he taught, at a large number of U.S. and Canadian universities
he visited, and in debates, books, lectures and articles.
Not long ago, however, Flew renounced his error and admitted that the universe was creat-
ed. In a report carried by The Sunday Times, he said: “I have been persuaded that it is sim-
ply out of the question that the first living matter evolved out of dead matter and then devel-
oped into an extraordinarily complicated creature.” (Stuart Wavell, Will Iredale, “Sorry, says athe-
istinchief, I do believe in God after all,” The Sunday Times, 12 December 2004; http://www.timeson-
line.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1400368,00.html)
A single consciousness, a universal wisdom, pervades the universe. The discoveries of sci-
ence, those that search the quantum nature of subatomic matter, have moved us to the brink
of a startling realization: all existence is the expression of this wisdom. In the laboratories
we experience it as information that first physically articulated as energy and then con-
densed into the form of matter. Every particle, every being, from atom to human, appears to
represent a level of information, of wisdom. (Gerald Schroeder, The Hidden Face of God, New
York: Touchstone, 2001, p. XI.)
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Anthony Flew’s abandonment of athe-
ism elicited a wide reaction in the do-
mestic and international press. News
organizations such as the Times, The
New York Times and MSNBC de-
13-12-2004
scribed the development as “Leading
Atheist Admits: I now Believe in
God,” “An Aatheist’s U-turn” and
“Leading Atheist Concludes: God
does Exist.”
192 Harun Yahya