Antony Flew 1923 – 2010

Antony Garrard Newton Flew was a British analytic philosopher of religion and ethics who, for most of a long career, was one of the most prominent philosophical defenders of atheism in the English-speaking world. After Oxford studies under Gilbert Ryle, he held chairs at Aberdeen, Keele, Calgary, and Reading, and produced a long series of works including God and Philosophy and The Presumption of Atheism. In 2004 he announced publicly that he had come to accept some form of deistic belief in God on the basis of arguments from physical and biological design, an episode extensively discussed in his late book There Is a God.