Another Anthony Flew?

The following is from an article called, "Is Richard Dawkins still evolving?" (Thursday, 23rd October 2008):

"On Tuesday evening I attended the debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox at Oxford’s Natural History Museum. This was the second public encounter between the two men, but it turned out to be very different from the first . . . This week’s debate, however, was different because from the off, Dawkins moved it onto safer territory–-and at the very beginning made a most startling admission. He said:

'A serious case could be made for a deistic God.'

This was surely remarkable. Here was the arch-apostle of atheism, whose whole case is based on the assertion that believing in a creator of the universe is no different from believing in fairies at the bottom of the garden, saying that a serious case can be made for the idea that the universe was brought into being by some kind of purposeful force. A creator. True, he was not saying he was now a deist; on the contrary, he still didn't believe in such a purposeful founding intelligence, and he was certainly still saying that belief in the personal God of the Bible was just like believing in fairies. Nevertheless, to acknowledge that ‘a serious case could be made for a deistic god’ is to undermine his previous categorical assertion that '...all life, all intelligence, all creativity and all 'design' anywhere in the universe is the direct or indirect product of Darwinian natural selection...Design cannot precede evolution and therefore cannot underlie the universe.'

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2543431/is-richard-dawkins-still-evolving.thtml