Philosopher reverses course after decades of promoting atheism

He expresses a belief in God based on scientific evidence

NEW YORK - A British philosophy professor who has been a leading champion of atheism for more than a half-century has changed his mind.

He now believes in God - more or less - based on scientific evidence, and says so on a video released Thursday.

At age 81, after decades of insisting belief is a mistake, Antony Flew has concluded that some sort of intelligence or first cause must have created the universe. A superintelligence is the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature, Flew said in a telephone interview from England.

"My whole life has been guided by the principle of Plato's Socrates: 'Follow the evidence, wherever it leads.'"

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