id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8944 Antony Flew - Wikipedia .html text/html 7724 842 68 However, in 2004 he changed his position, and stated that he now believed in the existence of an Intelligent Creator of the universe,[7] shocking colleagues and fellow atheists.[7] In order to further clarify his personal concept of God, Flew openly made an allegiance to Deism,[7][8] more specifically a belief in the Aristotelian God,[7][8] and dismissed on many occasions a hypothetical conversion to Christianity, Islam or any other religion.[7][8] He stated that in keeping his lifelong commitment to go where the evidence leads, he now believed in the existence of a God.[8][9] In October 2004 (before the December publication of the Flew–Habermas interview), in a letter written to the internet atheist advocate Richard Carrier of the Secular Web Flew stated that he was a deist, and wrote "I think we need here a fundamental distinction between the God of Aristotle or Spinoza and the Gods of the Christian and the Islamic Revelations."[45] Flew also said: "My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from DNA of the first reproducing species... ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8944.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8944.txt