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Antony Flew, who spent most of his life as an atheist, converted to deism late in life because of the anthropic principle.

He concluded that the fine-tuning of the universe was too precise to be the result of chance, so accepted the existence of God.

He said that his commitment to " go where the evidence leads " meant that he ended up accepting the existence of God.

Flew proposed the view, held earlier by Fred Hoyle, that the universe is too young for life to have developed purely by chance and that, therefore, an intelligent being must exist which was involved in designing the conditions required for life to evolve.