I asked the day it came out, but I thought maybe a few more people might have read it by now.
2007-11-28 08:26:31 · 16 answers · asked by Eleventy 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I bought it from Borders, sisterzeal... But I'm sure it's online.
2007-11-28 08:30:08 · update #1
It's by Anthony Flew...
2007-11-28 08:31:09 · update #2
Flew is the atheist philosopher of the 20th century. While others focused on disproving Christianity, he promoted atheism.
2007-11-28 08:35:10 · update #3
Isn't Dawkins the most notorious atheist?
I would read this - my reading list at the moment is rather long, and I'm short of reading time at the moment.
Sad thing is, I bet Christians will use this as evidence that the Christian God is real.
2007-11-28 08:34:26 · answer #1 · answered by Tom :: Athier than Thou 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Flew frankly has a naive information of the teological argument. He could be a properly trouble-free reality seeker yet his information of cosmology, quantum physics, and algorithmic innovations concept are completely inadequate to comprehend the deeper information of this argument. once you dig deeper ( pondering kolmogorov complexity themes ) you stumble on the teological argument factors not in direction of a god, yet in direction of a limiteless multiverse and modal realism. the concept that the beginning of reported complexity demands a prior extra suitable complexity purely finally ends up in the two countless regression or the failure of the belief. Presupposing an eternal god isn't an answer to the difficulty, that's honestly a lots extra suitable difficulty than one had first of all. of path Christians are going to have a tricky time with Flew's finished rejection of the Christian god for a deist one besides. Its a ask your self given Flew's flat rejection of Christianity why they even difficulty to deliver him up.
2016-10-09 21:38:58 · answer #2 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you read the book reviews over at Amazon.com?
http://www.amazon.com/There-God-Notorious-Atheist-Changed/dp/0061335290
I think the review by Richard C. Carrier "Historian & Philosopher" best summarizes the book:
"Flew has confessed to the fact that he did not write this book, and as I have documented online, he appears incapable of even remembering what it contains much less endorsing its contents (regardless of what his literary agent claims he has said). The historical record shows that none of the reasons given in this book were any of the reasons Flew became a Deist (in fact Deism, Flew's actual belief as he has publicly asserted many times, is not even discussed in this book). It is also not written in the logically meticulous style of Flew's real books, but in a very poorly argued, poorly written, and poorly organized manner. Every argument is plagued by obvious fallacies that even competent Christian apologists would not print. In fact, even as an atheist I can tell you there are many far superior books defending belief in God. I would not recommend wasting time reading this poor substitute for them." [more on Amazon site]
2007-11-28 08:31:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No but I read a book called 'Beyond Deaths door' by Dr Maurice Rawlings. Included are stories of people who have clinically died and then been resuscitated. (have you seen flatliners? Creepy film)
Anyway it's quite possible that Flatliners is not so far from the truth. I quote 'it's very hard to be an athiest when you are on your deathbed but easy to be one when you are successful and healthy' (although that's from the video on the website)
He felt pure terror when he died and that was just the beginning, he asked what if there is a heaven and hell? What if his friend who had spoken to him about these things is right? He fought and wrestled for his very soul as he lay dying on his bed, he eventually recovered from his illness and has a radically different belief system today.
www.spiritlessons.com
scroll down to Dr Rawlings
Dan
2007-11-28 08:38:46 · answer #4 · answered by Dan 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Who's the author?
2007-11-28 08:31:13 · answer #5 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, but I have read several interviews of Flew prior to the book. The reasons he gave in the interviews are not compelling at all, and he himself would have laughed at them a decade ago. This seems to me to be a case of someone losing his faculties as a result of age.
2007-11-28 08:31:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I never heard of him. Where does he get off styling himself "The world's most notorious atheist?"
2007-11-28 08:32:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
interesting....
who is the worlds most notorious atheist ?
2007-11-28 08:30:56 · answer #8 · answered by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The book is not even written by Flew (who, by the way, is suffering a mental decline). I read all about it...
http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2007/11/antony-flew-bogus-book.html -
2007-11-28 08:30:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Nope.
Who's the world's most notorious atheist?
Edit: Never heard of him.
2007-11-28 08:29:29 · answer #10 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋