The influence of Antony Flew.

[Jehanne]

I never heard of Dr. Flew until Christians started to bring him up as an example of a prominent atheist who converted to believing in God.

I am not knowledgeable in the area of philosophy (reading Kant gave me a headache), and so, am looking for an expert, or at least an informed individual, in this area.  Like I said in the OP, my wife's undergraduate textbook appealed directly to Flew for its atheist arguments.  Having said that, I think that Professor Flew was correct in his original ideas, namely, The Presumption of Atheism.  In the history of scholarship, examples of scholars can be found who develop an idea or theory that is intrinsically correct, and who, later on, abandon their ideas and go to their graves doing so; later on, other scholars come along and determine that the scholar in question was originally correct.  The example that I am thinking of is Joseph Fourier, who originally proposed the greenhouse effect, but later mostly abandoned that idea in favor of another one (interstellar radiation) that is not correct.