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Antony Flew's Deism Revisited
References

[2]. Ibid., 6 - 7.
[3]. Antony Flew, God and Philosophy
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2005), 10 - 16.
[4]. Examples include the Associated Press,
"There Is a God, Leading Atheist Concludes," December 9, 2004; David
Roach, "Famed Atheist Sees Evidence for God, Cites Recent Discoveries,"
BP News, December 13, 2004; David Roach, "Atheist's Turn
Toward God Was a Four-Year Process, Friend Says," BP News,
December 22, 2004; Gene Edward Veith, "Flew the Coup," World
Magazine, 2004; mention was also made in columns such as "Quotables"
and "The Buzz," both from World Magazine, 2004.
[5]. Antony Flew and Gary Habermas, "My Pilgrimage
from Atheism to Theism: A Discussion between Antony Flew and Gary
Habermas," Philosophia Christi 6 (2004): 197 - 211.
[6]. James A. Beverly, "Thinking Straighter,"
Christianity Today, April 2005, 80 - 3
[7]. In our discussion for Philosophia
Christi, I asked Tony which term he preferred. Tony was convinced
that "theism" was the better word for the article, even if less
accurate, because he thought that the nuances of "deism" were not
well known and would raise too many definitional issues. But it
turned out that "deism" was well received, hence its more accurate
use in this article.
[8]. For some details, see Flew and Habermas,
"My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism," 208 - 11.
[9]. The page numbers cited in the text of
this article are from the bound but not finally corrected proofs
of the book.
[10]. Varghese is a long-time philosophical
and scientific conference organizer, editor, and winner of a 1996
Templeton Book Prize for Outstanding Books in Science and Natural
Theology.
[11]. A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and
Logic (New York: Dover, 1946). In the introduction to this later
edition of the 1936 work, Ayer acknowledges that the assault on
the verification principle succeeded in pointing out some flaws
in the concept (5 - 26).
[12]. Antony Flew, "Theology and Falsification:
A Golden Jubilee Celebration," Philosophy Now, October/November
2000, 28.
[13]. Antony Flew, "From Atheism to Deism:
A Conversation between Antony Flew and Gary Habermas," in C.
S. Lewis as Philosopher: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, ed. Jerry
L. Walls, David Baggett, and Gary Habermas (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity,
2008).
[14]. Antony Flew in discussion with the
author, October 3, 2007.