If you read the book itself, you will find some rather crass creationist arguments that any half decent philosopher would have seen through, so yes indeed, clearly it reeks of bovine waste and is not his work at all.
It is worth reading all of that article, it is a fascinating insight into how Flew himself was simply taken advantage of by some Christians with a specific agenda. With three authors, how much Flew was left in the book? So even the ghostwriter had a ghostwriter: Bob Hostetler, an evangelical pastor and author from Ohio, rewrote many passages, especially in the section that narrates Flew’s childhood. And then to make it more reader-friendly, HarperCollins had a more popular author go through it.” Oh, and I exposed him to certain authors and got his views on them. “There is stuff he’d written to me in correspondence, and I organized a lot of it. “There was stuff he had written before, and some of that was adapted to this,” Varghese said. But he made the book sound like more of a joint effort - slightly more, anyway. When I asked Varghese, he freely admitted that the book was his idea and that he had done all the original writing for it. “This is really Roy’s doing,” he said, before I had even figured out a polite way to ask.
In his 2007 article, he writes …Īs he himself conceded, he had not written his book. Mark Oppenheimer, a New York Times journalist, dug into all this and discovered that Flew had not in fact written the book at all.
There was a book, entitled “ There is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind“, that was supposedly written by Flew himself, but it turns out that was not the case. Then he later supposedly changed his mind. In fact, at the age of 27 he wrote a paper that is perhaps the most widely read philosophical publication of the second half of the twentieth century in which he argues that the entire concept of a god is meaningless.
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