Tom Price, who works with the Zacharias Trust at the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics as a Tutor/Lecturer, has just put up a brief blog post about ‘God: new evidence.’ In it, he cites a remark by Professor Anthony Flew, one of the most famous atheists of our generation. (Flew recently, and very publicly, retracted his atheism):
Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since to come to see that, when correctly formulated, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.
Of course, Flew has not become a Christian. He has not even become a traditional theist. Probably more like what used to be called a deist. Still, I find his ‘conversion’ fascinating, and hope to have an opportunity to reflect further on it in the future.
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It would be very interesting to read the responses of other atheists to this perhaps unexpected conversion of so solid an atheist.
Francis Collins, the former head of the Human Genome Project, is likely as high in the scientific food chain as you can get, having headed the largest most important scientific project of our generation. He is also a former atheist, having examined the science and found God the likely answer to the fine tuning and other arguments….