Antony Flew
English philosopher
Also known as: Antony Garrard Newton Flew
Antony Flew (born Feb. 11, 1923, London, Eng.—died April 8, 2010, Reading) was an English philosopher who became a prominent defender of atheism but later declared himself a deist. Flew was the son of a Methodist minister and was educated at a Christian boarding school. As a teenager, he decided that the traditional Christian concept of a good God was inconsistent with the presence of evil in the world (see problem of evil), and thus...