There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind »

Philosopher and former atheist Antony Flew set the agenda for modern atheism with his 1950 essay "Theology and Falsification," which became the most widely reprinted philosophical publication of the last half century. Flew has published over thirty books, including God and Philosophy, The Presumption of Atheism, and How to Think Straight. He spent twenty years as professor of philosophy at the University of Keele and has also held positions at Oxford, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Reading. He now lives in Reading, England.

A wave of modern atheists have taken center stage and brought the long standing debate about the existence of God back into headlines. Spearheaded by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, this "new atheism" has found a powerful place in today's culture wars. Although this movement has been billed as "new" the foundation of its argument is indebted to philosopher Anthony Flew and his groundbreaking paper "Theology and Falsification," the most widely reprinted philosophical publication of the last half century. Flew built his highly acclaimed academic career publicly debunking the existence of God. But now the renowed philosopher has arrived at the opposite conclusion and officially joined the other side.

The New York Times - Anthony Gottlieb

"Flew now thinks "the world picture ... that has emerged from modern science" points to an "infinite Intelligence" that brought the universe into being. He believes the fact that nature obeys precise mathematical laws, the fact that life and mind have emerged from inanimate matter, and the fact that the universe exists at all are best explained by positing a God."

Preface     VII
Introduction     I
My Denial of the Divine     7
The Creation of an Atheist     9
Where the Evidence Leads     31
Atheism Calmly Considered     65
My Discovery of the Divine     83
A Pilgrimage of Reason     85
Who Wrote the Laws of Nature?     95
Did the Universe Know We Were Coming?     113
How Did Life Go Live?     123
Did Something Come from Nothing?     133
Finding Space for God     147
Open to Omnipotence     155
Appendices     159
The "New Atheism": A Critical Appraisal of Dawkins, Dennett, Wolpert, Harris, and Stenger   Roy Abraham Varghese     161
The Self-Revelation of God in Human History: A Dialogue on Jesus with N.T. Wright     185
Notes     215