Jesus Walks

I ain't here to argue about his facial features
Or here to convert atheists into believers
--Kanye West

This is just something of interest I found. I think Hawking was a non-believer for a long time before going back to religion.... Nietzsche was a trained priest who turned from the church and then spent the last years of his life wandering around Venice believing he was a disciple.

via Drudge

Famous Atheist Now Believes in God
NEW YORK Dec 9, 2004 — 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."