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Seeking to assign blame for the devastation wrought by the recent
tsunami, a television journalist asked a Jesuit priest if God could be
held accountable. The priest replied that we cannot hold God
accountable for anything unless we first believe in him.
Recently, two of the world's most celebrated atheists have tempered
their lack of belief. Anthony Flew, 81, an emeritus professor of
philosophy at Reading University in England, once debated the great
Christian apologist C.S. Lewis, at Oxford, saying that the burden of
proof rests on those who affirm God.
Today he says: "I'm not quite sure. Because something looks
improbable, it doesn't mean it's impossible: the fact that we are here
means something did occur." Flew believes the intricacy of DNA
suggests something more than mere chance in the universe.
Richard Dawkins, 63, Oxford's professor of the public understanding of
science, is celebrated for preaching that everyone is at the mercy of
his or her genetic makeup. But recently he is making allowances for
what is popularly known as free will. A strict Darwinian, he still
believes God is unnecessary, but he argues that creationism should be
taught in the schools if only to make godless evolution
understandable.
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