Ah the powers of confirmatory bias. I picked up the link to the Flew piece from Arts and Letters Daily: http://aldaily.com/. There are three links in that story. I looked at the first, was happy with what I saw and sent it on. There is a third link to an interview with Flew that will be published in the winter 2004 volume of "Philosophia Christi." Here is a direct link to that interview http://www.biola.edu/antonyflew/
I only skimmed the interview, but it appears that Flew has become a deist much in the model of Thomas Jefferson.
I hope not. Jefferson was a very 'soft' Deist who believed that Jesus, while not himself divine, was divinely selected (see Jefferson's Bible). This is not consistent with true 'wind-it-up-and-let-it-run' Deism.
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