Applied Epistemology

The NYT has a detailed piece on Antony Flew and the thoroughly suspect genesis of "his" book There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.

As [Flew] himself conceded, he had not written his book.

“This is really Roy’s doing,” he said, before I had even figured out a polite way to ask. “He showed it to me, and I said O.K. I’m too old for this kind of work!”

Shameless. As someone who has read Flew's early works, I'll add that calling him a "notorious atheist" (let alone the world's most! -- wtf?, do the Christians think atheism is rap?) is asinine. Flew's falsification argument is justly famous, but his books are genteel and respectful of religion throughout. He was never a polemicist like Mencken or Hitchens, not even close.

If they were less well-funded, they'd have taken his credit card numbers, too.