http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obit ... 0427.storyAntony Flew, an academic philosopher who expounded atheism for most of his life but made a late conversion to belief in a creator, has died in England. He was 87.
Flew died April 8 after a long illness, according to a notice his family placed in the Times of London.
The son of a Methodist minister, Flew abandoned belief as a teenager because of the problem of evil.
"It just seemed flatly inconsistent to say that the universe was created by an omnipotent and perfectly good being. Yet there were evils in abundance which could not be put down to a consequence of human sin," he was quoted as saying in a 2004 interview with the Sunday Times.
In the last decade of his life, scientific discoveries about the complexity of DNA led him to believe there was an intelligent creator.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituar ... -Flew.htmlProfessor Antony Flew, the rationalist philosopher who died on April 8 aged 87, spent much of his life denying the existence of God until, in 2004, he dramatically changed his mind.
