What do atheists think about Antony Flew. -the "world's most notorious atheist" who changed his mind?

He went where his feelings led him, I don't criticise that in him. It would have been far worse for him to have come to believe, and hidden the fact. I've heard about the ghost writing accusations, but I'm not going to get muddied by that debate. I'm just going to assume an old man found comfort in the concept of a creator.

I'm not sure what it was that switched him to Deism, maybe I should read his book and find out. Certainly if I were going to find belief in a supreme being, then Deism is probably the religious belief I'd follow too.

Hackett out

Edit:

@Roger

As you will note from atheistic posts here, Flew's personal decisions didn't sway anyone here. This is something believers often fail to understand because they exist in such a rigid religious hierarchy. Atheists don't follow any leaders. There's admired figures, but they're not our commanders. The whole world may turn Deist, but I'll still be an atheist because that's how I feel about the world. Appealing to authority doesn't help change anything in me.

An old man abused by a believer who wanted his name, only.

Bloody religious vultures.

-In 2007, Flew published a book titled There is a God, which was listed as having Roy Abraham Varghese as its co-author. Shortly after the book was released, the New York Times published an article by religious historian Mark Oppenheimer, who stated that Varghese had been almost entirely responsible for writing the book, and that Flew was in a serious state of mental decline, having great difficulty remembering key figures, ideas, and events relating to the debate covered in the book.[6] His book praises several philosophers (like Brian Leftow, John Leslie and Paul Davies), but Flew failed to remember their work during Oppenheimer's interview. The article provoked a public outcry, in which atheist PZ Myers called Varghese "a contemptible manipulator."[29]-

so his mental state was declining when the book was written. In other words, he was no longer capable of denying what he had learned over the years was obviously true. All those years of thinking, "cr@p, I'm wrong. oh well I am a renowned atheist. Many spiritually blind people are following me, I must maintain my act of unbelief" In old age or illness people lose their "filter" and just say what they think. I guess thats what happened here.

I personally don't find it particularly monumental that someone changed his mind . about god or bigfoot or anything. I have no idea why anyone thinks anything flew's beliefs or disbelief is at all significant. atheist believe in free thought.

Who is this guy again? If he was more notorious than Sam Harris, Phillip Pullman or Richard Dawkins surely I'd know!

Never heard of him. Wake me when he writes a rational book that gives Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss pause.

Personally, I've never head of him. And if he did change his mind, so what? He's an individual with his own experiences and intellect.

Never heard of him

appeal to authority = no

There's a log, there's a log

There's a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

Never heard of him, couldn't care less about him. Don't appeal to authority.