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> Sound of Trumpet wrote:
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>> http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2007/08/former-famous-atheist-antony-flew-asked...
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>> Former famous atheist Antony Flew asked for intelligent design to be
>> taught in British schools.

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> I suggest they teach it in every Mental Institution.
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> 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.
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> [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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