There is no a god – Flew speaks out: Professor Anthony Flew reviews the God Delusion
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‘A less important point which needs to be made in this piece is that although the index of The God Delusion notes six references to Deism it provides no definition of the word ‘deism’. This enables Dawkins in his references to Deism to suggest that Deists are a miscellany of believers in this and that. The truth, which Dawkins ought to have learned before this book went to the printers, is that Deists believe in the existence of a God but not the God of any revelation.’
Harsh words by Flew.
What does Dawkins write in The God Delusion
On page 18 Dawkins writes :-
‘A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who in addition to his main work of creating the universe in the first place, is still around to oversee and and influence the subsequent fate of his initial creation… A deist too believes in a supernatural intelligence, but one whose activities were confined to setting up the laws that govern the universe in the first place. The deist God never intervenes thereafter, and certainly has no specific interest in human affairs.’
Yet Flew can review the God Delusion and write that there is no definition of deism in it, and go on to slam Dawkins for not bothering to find out the truth about what deists believe.
20 July, 2008 at 7:55 pm |
‘A less important point which needs to be made in this piece is that although the index of The God Delusion notes six references to Deism it provides no definition of the word ‘deism’. This enables Dawkins in his references to Deism to suggest that Deists are a miscellany of believers in this and that. The truth, which Dawkins ought to have learned before this book went to the printers, is that Deists believe in the existence of a God but not the God of any revelation.’
Harsh words by Flew.
What does Dawkins write in The God Delusion
On page 18 Dawkins writes :-
‘A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who in addition to his main work of creating the universe in the first place, is still around to oversee and and influence the subsequent fate of his initial creation… A deist too believes in a supernatural intelligence, but one whose activities were confined to setting up the laws that govern the universe in the first place. The deist God never intervenes thereafter, and certainly has no specific interest in human affairs.’
Yet Flew can review the God Delusion and write that there is no definition of deism in it, and go on to slam Dawkins for not bothering to find out the truth about what deists believe.
Flew really has gone….