Dear Church Family,

As you will see this coming Sunday, it’s all about VBS this next week. I ask that you volunteer, invite kids to come, and pray. In fact, I would ask a specific favor of you all, and that is to pray and fast on Thursday, which is the day we share the Gospel with the children who are old enough to make a decision. Thank you in advance for being a Kingdom builder. I will also ask another favor and that is if you are able to help with the clean up on Thursday, that is where we always need lots of help. As my old sergeant used to say, “Many hands make the work light!” Well, I found another article that I thought you might enjoy—

Antony Flew was one of the most influential atheist philosophers of the 20th century.
He debated C.S. Lewis and shaped modern unbelief.
Then, late in life, he shocked the world:
He changed his mind.

Here’s how one of atheism’s greatest champions became a theist.
Antony Flew was THE atheist philosopher for decades: he authored “Theology and Falsification,” one of the most widely reprinted philosophical essays of the 20th century.
He famously said: “We must follow the evidence, wherever it leads.”

So how did it lead to God? This is his story…
Like many atheists, Antony was raised in a religious household.
At just 15 years old, he abandoned the Christianity of his upbringing and became an atheist.
He later said, “I abandoned the faith of my father as soon as I was intellectually able to do so.”

In 1950, Flew presented a paper at Oxford titled “Theology and Falsification.”
It became one of the most widely reprinted philosophical essays of the 20th century.
In it, he argued that religious claims are meaningless unless they can be tested or falsified. Sound familiar?

Anthony wasn’t hostile or emotional—he was cool, careful, and logical.
And that made him dangerous.
He debated Christian thinkers across the world, including C.S. Lewis himself. He was the gold standard for intellectually serious atheism.

And for most of his life, the evidence—at least as he understood it—led him away from God.
But as the decades passed, things began to change.
The discoveries in science began to change…
What shook him most was the complexity of DNA.

He wrote:
“What I think the DNA material has done is show that intelligence must have been involved in getting these extraordinarily diverse elements together.”
Codes require coders. And blind chance couldn’t write a library.
He also pointed to the fine-tuning of the universe as a decisive clue.
“The laws of nature… seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design.”

To Flew, this wasn’t a ‘God of the gaps’ move; it was following the evidence where it actually pointed.
Like CS Lewis, Flew became convinced that rationality itself was better explained by a divine mind than by blind matter.
“It seems to me that Richard Dawkins constantly overlooks the fact that Darwin himself… pointed out that his theory was compatible with belief in God.”

In 2004, at age 81, Flew announced something that stunned the world:
He now believed in God.
He said:
“I must stress that my discovery of the Divine has proceeded from the scientific data, and not from any dream or vision.”
Atheists immediately accused him of being senile. Of being manipulated and betraying the cause.
But Flew was clear-minded and careful. He addressed every criticism.
In fact, he anticipated the attacks. That’s why he wrote “There Is a God,” to explain his reasons in detail.

In that book, he made his new position crystal clear:
“I now believe that the universe was brought into existence by an infinite Intelligence… and that this Intelligence explains both its intricate complexity and the existence of life.”
He never fully embraced Christianity. But he took it very seriously.
He said that if any religion were true, it would be Christianity.
And he praised the historical work of Christian scholars, especially on the resurrection.
Flew was especially impressed by the work of N.T. Wright, calling his case for the resurrection “absolutely first-class.”

He wrote:
“The evidence for the resurrection is better than for claimed miracles in any other religion. It’s outstandingly different in quality and quantity.”
Flew died in 2010. At the end, he stood by his belief in God.
He went from the world’s leading atheist philosopher… to a man who said the evidence pointed to a Creator.

Why?
Because he meant what he said all along:
“We must follow the evidence, wherever it leads.”

Press on,

Mark