[betty boop]

...biologists' investigation of DNA "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved"... [Flew] accepts Darwinian evolution but doubts it can explain the ultimate origins of life.

Sounds about right to me! Of course, his theology is still sub-par.... :^) (JMHO FWIW)

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed. At least he has taken a major step in the right direction.

[StJacques]

". . .biologists' investigation of DNA "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved"... [Flew] accepts Darwinian evolution but doubts it can explain the ultimate origins of life. . . ."

I do not accept the premise that any investigation of the "complexity" of DNA by biologists has established in any way "that intelligence must have been involved." In fact, those who are principally involved in the making of this argument are doing so from the perspective of mathematical probability rather than from scientific investigation because they are proposing that which cannot be disproved, namely; that complexity alone explains intelligent design. Explaining the origins of life is still a problem in evolutionary biology, and there has been progress in addressing it, but to say that it has failed and will not ever come up with an answer is false.

And none of what I have written denies a creator either, something in which I very much believe.