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[2] It is well known that most naturalists believe in God, contrary to what atheists attempt to make
others believe (See, for instance, 50 Nobel Laureates and Other Great Scientists Who Believe in God).
In fact, numerous present-day leading advocates of atheism have abandoned atheism altogether.
These include renowned English philosopher Professor Anthony Flew, who led the global atheist
movement for more than half a century. After turning eighty, Flew published his 'spiritual'
autobiography, There is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind, in which
he stated that he declared his belief in God based on the facts reached by modern science and based
on cogent evidence. Francis Sellers Collins, an American physician-geneticist noted for his discoveries
of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project, also abandoned atheism. His works
include The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, a bestselling book in which he
advocates theistic evolution. Renowned Paul C. Vitxz, a one-time atheist, declared his belief in God in
his famous book Faith of the fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism. In one of his statements, he said,
"I assume that the major barriers to belief in God are not rational but—in a general sense—can be
called psychological. I do not wish to offend the many distinguished philosophers—both believers and
nonbelievers—in this audience, but I am quite convinced that for every person strongly swayed by
rational argument there are many, many more affected by non-rational psychological factors." John
Paul Sartre, a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic,
as well as one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology and one of
the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism, also abandoned atheism shortly
before his death. French writer and philosopher Voltaire, who also was an atheist, said before his
death, "I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition." In
his book On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin writes, "Another source of conviction in the existence
of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more
weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and
wonderful universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as
the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause
having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a
Theist." Richard Dawkins, the world's most notorious atheist, admitted he did know everything, and
therefore allowed for the possibility that he was wrong. In a TV interview, he said he was less than
100 percent certain of his conviction that there is no creator and admitted he could not be sure that
God does not exist. Atheists do not have evidence to prove God does not exist. They only conjecture,
as the Qur'an (45/24) states, "They say, There is nothing but our life in this world: we die,
we live, nothing but time destroys us. They have no knowledge of this; they only follow
conjecture." The burden of proof falls upon the one who denies the existence of God and not upon