Religion Notes

Joe Carter at the Evangelical Outpost has a fascinating post about the recent intellectual development of philosopher Antony Flew. Flew has long been known as one of the fiercest critics of natural theology (especially during the heyday of the “falsification” debate). He now appears to be on the verge of accepting a version of the argument from design.

The London Spectator has an interview with liberal Anglican theologian (or do I repeat myself?) Keith Ward. Some of what he says is typically wishy-washy, but there are some interesting bits. To wit:

‘Darwinism is all right as far as it goes — but it can give no adequate account of aesthetic, religious or moral values. Richard Dawkins thinks you really should be moral, but where does the “should” come from? Even if they show that ethics is a successful survival strategy, it doesn’t explain why we should be good.’

and

‘I think the sciences point very much to a religious basis. I’ve never met a world-class physicist who doesn’t think there’s more to the universe than just atoms bumping together, something mind-like at work, some intelligence. Even Einstein believed that. In the last 20 years, there has been an intellectual revolution in thinking in Britain. God has become an option again but it’s just that it hasn’t quite filtered down to everybody else yet.’