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To: Brumar89 who wrote (235490)	1/22/2008 2:56:46 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793956

I am not an atheist, and am open to evidence from the supernatural or the natural. So far, natural is leading in the explanations of mysterious phenomena. It seems Flew is a Jeffersonian deist, and rejects traditional religions. He considers only the possibility of a First Cause god. ("While reason, mainly in the form of arguments to design, assures us that there is a God, there is no room either for any supernatural revelation of that God or for any transactions between that God and individual human beings."). Flew's conception of God as explained in the interview is limited to the idea of God as a first cause. He rejects the ideas of an afterlife, of God as the source of good (he explicitly states that God has created "a lot of" evil), and of the resurrection of Jesus as a historical fact. He is particularly hostile to Islam. This quote tickled me. When asked in December 2004 by Duncan Crary of Humanist Network News if he still stood by the argument presented in The Presumption of Atheism, Flew replied he did but he also restated his position as deist: "I'm quite happy to believe in an inoffensive inactive god". When asked by Crary whether or not he has kept up with the most recent science and theology, he responded with "Certainly not" WEll, he was 80 when he decided deism might be ok, so I still have lots of years left to consider it all.