Four months ago the British philosopher Anthony Flew shocked the world when he announced that he had, in the felicitous phrase made famous by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "willfully suspended disbelief."

based upon the scientific evidence of the complexity in nature, he believes it is likely that some super-intelligence or first cause something like Aristotle's "god" created the universe

compares his beliefs to those of Einstein who believed in "an Intelligence that produced the integrative complexity of creation." Flew believes in evolution but thinks it cannot account for the ultimate origins of life. His ideas, he says, bear some similarity to the Intelligent Design movement.

he was, according to the Times Literary Supplement, "one of the most renowned atheists of the past half-century, whose papers and lectures have formed the bedrock of unbelief for many adherents."

"I have followed the policy of Plato's Socrates: We must follow the argument wherever it leads."