| Re: Former Atheist Antony Flew Wants Intelligent Design To Be Taught In British Schools |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: bob youngbob young Date: Sep 16, 2007 02:06
Sound of Trumpet wrote:
I suggest they teach it in every Mental Institution.
Children should be left entirely free from any form of religious dogma until they reach an
age where they can make an intelligent decision about faiths, say around fourteen.
[the sight of Islamic kids learning the Koran parrot fashion bobbing their heads backwards
and forwards makes me sick.]
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> As the ID controversy grows worldwide, I simply don't and can't keep
> up with everything. One thing I hadn't realized - which a friend
> mentioned recently - is that one of the 12 prominent academics who
> asked at the end of last year for intelligednt design to be explored
> in science classes was Antony Flew:
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> It has emerged that 12 prominent academics wrote to Tony Blair and
> Alan Johnson, the education secretary, last month arguing that ID
> should be taught as part of science on the national curriculum.
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> They included Antony Flew, formerly professor of philosophy at Reading
> University; Terry Hamblin, professor of immunohaemotology at
> Southampton University; and John Walton, professor of chemistry at St
> Andrews University.
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> Flew was best known for being converted from atheism to deism (there
> is at least some kind of God) by intelligent design - after about
> fifty years of being one of the world's most respected academic
> atheists. He commented on DNA that
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> ... the investigation of DNA "has shown, by the almost unbelievable
> complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life),
> that intelligence must have been involved.
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> Of course, the British government nixed the idea, but I bet it doesn't
> die. And people wonder why there is an intelligent design controversy.
> By the way, to keep up with ID in Britain, go here.
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