Analysis of the Evidence of Atheism in Antony Flew's Thought

From the Age of Enlightenment to the present day, modern man has sought to analyze religious beliefs in new epistemological ways. Accordingly, the study of belief in God as the most important religious belief has emerged by examining the evidence of theism and has had a special occurrence among Western thinkers. Antony Flew, a contemporary philosopher based on evidence, is one of the thinkers who paid special attention to the analysis of theism and its rejection based on evidence. So much so that he was called the father of neo-atheism. The subject of this article is the study and analysis of his views in the first period of his scientific life, which he emerged as an atheist. In his atheistic works, Antony Flew states some basic points in rejecting theism, the more basic of which are discussed in this article. To this end, Antony Flew's prominent views on atheism, namely the meaninglessness of the language of religion, the incompatibility of the concept of God, and the principle of atheism, are examined, and then the strengths and weaknesses of each are examined. Thus, it will be revealed that although Flew has presented serious and thought-provoking problems in the field of theism, But many of these cases in the past have been suggested in other ways and of course can be criticized and have drawbacks and weaknesses that are considered.