To: VadeRetro
He recanted his recantation.
Apparently Flew is still a believer in God. In the most recent interview, he restated his deism, with the usual provisos that his God is not the God of any of the revealed religions. A deist is by definition someone who believes that God created but does not intervene in the world. If this is not ID, I don't know what is. Therefore, Stephen Meyer is not untruthful in this sense.
To: SirLinksalot
Therefore, Stephen Meyer is not untruthful in this sense. As I amended later, Flew was initially persuaded in part by arguments from biological complexity. He has been dissuaded that there is any such argument to be made. He is still vaguely Deistic, seeing an impersonal, non-anthropomorphic God. The result sounds to me something like Einstein's near-metaphorical Deism.
But Meyer not knowing that Flew has moved away from ID is not good.
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01/30/2006 12:45:40 PM PST by
VadeRetro
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