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Who is the Being having intelligence and a purpose for
humanity?
From:
"jagbir singh" <www.adishakti.org@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Dec 11, 2004 7:09 pm
Subject: Who is the Being having intelligence
and a purpose for humanity?
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Philosophy
professor bases new belief on scientific evidence
By Richard N. Ostling
Associated Press
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 super-intelligence is the
only good
explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of
nature, Flew
said in a telephone interview from England.
Flew said he's best labeled a deist like Thomas
Jefferson, whose God
was not actively involved in people's lives.
"I'm thinking of a God very different from the God of
the Christian
and far and away from the God of Islam, because both are
depicted as
omnipotent Oriental despots, cosmic Saddam Husseins," he
said. "It
could be a person in the sense of a being that has
intelligence and a
purpose, I suppose."
Flew first made his mark with the 1950 article "Theology
and
Falsification," based on a paper for the Socratic Club,
a weekly
Oxford religious forum led by writer and Christian
thinker C.S.
Lewis.
Over the years, Flew proclaimed the lack of evidence for
God while
teaching at Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele, and Reading
universities in
Britain, in visits to numerous U.S. and Canadian
campuses and in
books, articles and debates.
There was no one moment of change but a gradual
conclusion over
recent months for Flew, a spry man who still does not
believe in an
afterlife.
Yet biologists' investigation of DNA "has shown, by the
almost
unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are
needed to
produce (life), that intelligence must have been
involved," Flew says
in the new video, "Has Science Discovered God?"
The video draws from a New York discussion last May
organized by
author Roy Abraham Varghese's Institute for
Metascientific Research
in Garland, Texas. Participants were Flew; Varghese;
Israeli
physicist Gerald Schroeder, an Orthodox Jew; and Roman
Catholic
philosopher John Haldane of Scotland's University of St.
Andrews.
The first hint of Flew's turn was a letter to the
August-September
issue of Britain's Philosophy Now magazine. "It has
become
inordinately difficult even to begin to think about
constructing a
naturalistic theory of the evolution of that first
reproducing
organism," he wrote.
The letter commended arguments in Schroeder's "The
Hidden Face of
God" and "The Wonder of the World" by Varghese, an
Eastern Rite
Catholic layman.
This week, Flew finished writing the first formal
account of his new
outlook for the introduction to a new edition of his
"God and
Philosophy," scheduled for release next year by
Prometheus Books.
Prometheus specializes in skeptical thought, but if his
belief upsets
people, well "that's too bad," Flew said. "My whole life
has been
guided by the principle of Plato's Socrates: Follow the
evidence,
wherever it leads." ...
Flew told The Associated Press his current ideas have
some similarity
with American "intelligent design" theorists, who see
evidence for a
guiding force in the construction of the universe. He
accepts
Darwinian evolution but doubts it can explain the
ultimate origins of
life.
A Methodist minister's son, Flew became an atheist at
15. Early in
his career, he argued that no conceivable events could
constitute
proof against God for believers, so skeptics were right
to wonder
whether the concept of God meant anything at all.
Another landmark was his 1984 "The Presumption of
Atheism," playing
off the presumption of innocence in criminal law. Flew
said the
debate over God must begin by presuming atheism, putting
the burden
of proof on those arguing that God exists.
Philosophy professor bases new belief on scientific
evidence
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So who is the Being having intelligence and a purpose
for humanity?
Only the Shakti's Great Event ordained for humanity
answers this
question. The Last Judgment and Resurrection ordained
for humanity
guarantees to displace the darkness of souls and grant
salvation in
this lifetime.
For more than three decades the Shakti's incarnation on
earth in the
form of Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi has declared and
explained in
detail the Great Event ordained for all humanity. The
Last Judgment
and Resurrection promises both bodily resurrection (kundalini
awakening) and spiritual immortality (moksa).
"Tagore comes closest to us, though, when he calls on
his Western
friends to imagine a world in which East and West give
each other
spiritual gifts free of imperialistic coercion, a world
in which
science is honored but spiritual and human values rule.
When our
universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it
is as
truth, we feel it as beauty," Tagore told Einstein in
1930. Coming
from a man with few illusions about either East or West,
this noble
sentiment sounds less like pure idealism than a hard-won
way of
living decently in a violent century. Tagore's gift for
us today,
splendidly presented in this anthology, is his
insistence on
speaking for the highest human values and loftiest human
aims. At a
time when our public discourses have descended into the
mud of
marketspeak and realpolitik, we need Tagore's courageous
and
undeceived conviction that we were born for something
wildly and
brilliantly better." (Jon Spayde, The Forgotten Genius
(March/April
98 Utne Reader)
And the great Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
declares: "I was
born at this time where I have to do this job of telling
you that
you must get your transformation... . The human being
is not an
ignoble being. He is the epitome of all evolution."
Only the Shakti has the intelligence to reveal the
deepest secrets
of scriptural parables that promise a divine purpose for
humanity.
Jai Shri Mataji,
jagbir |
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