{"id":403,"date":"2007-12-01T19:31:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T19:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/01\/anthony-flew-intelligent-desig\/"},"modified":"2007-12-01T19:31:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T19:31:26","slug":"anthony-flew-intelligent-desig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/anthony-flew-intelligent-desig\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Flew, Intelligent Design Supporter, Soft on Eugenics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Lynch is reporting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ID supporters seem to like Antony Flew, the one-time atheist philosopher who has apparently seen the light and become a deist. They have awarded him the Phillip Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth, they have lauded his latest book, and Bill Dembski exclaims &#8220;God bless Antony Flew!&#8221; But at the risk of raining on the parade, there&#8217;s something that Bill needs to realize &#8211; the fearless Flew seems to have a very ambivalent attitude (to put it mildly) to eugenics.Prometheus Books recently published its New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, a work to which I provided an entry on Haeckel and co-wrote (with Matt Young) the entry on unbelief among scientists. While browsing my copy, I stumbled across the entry on eugenics (pp. 294 &#8211; 296, pdf), written by none other that Antony Flew&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, this gets very interesting.  Go to<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/strangerfruit\/2007\/11\/flews_eugenic_leanings.php\"> Flew&#8217;s Eugenic Leanings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Lynch is reporting: ID supporters seem to like Antony Flew, the one-time atheist philosopher who has apparently seen the light and become a deist. They have awarded him the Phillip Johnson Award for Liberty and Truth, they have lauded his latest book, and Bill Dembski exclaims &#8220;God bless Antony Flew!&#8221; But at the risk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/anthony-flew-intelligent-desig\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anthony Flew, Intelligent Design Supporter, Soft on Eugenics<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[156],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}