If I remember correctly the events portrayed in Skeptical Enquirer, Flew, subsequent to an ID symposium sponsored by The Institute for Metascientific Research, admitted that there existed sufficient evidence that he could tentatively accept the idea of an intelligent designer. Great cries of hallelujah were heard from all corners of the ID world. Flew, when he later recanted this admission he explained how he arrived at it initially and why he ws recanting. He explained that he had taken statements made at that symposium by Gerald Schroeder as factual and thought it reasonable to do so since Schroeder was a respected scientist with many genuine accomplishments in biology. After it was revealed Flew (who isn’t a scientist, but a philosopher by the way) that many of Schroeder’s statements of fact were indeed incorrect, or not supported by sound science, he recanted his belief in an intelligent designer.
Here’s the hallelujah broadcast by The Institute for Metascientific Research:
http://www.thewonderoftheworld.com/newsrelease-flew.php
I’ll dig out my issue of Skeptical Enquirer where Flew explained his recantation and initial justifications for his flip-flop and correct the above as necessary, but I think I’ve got the broad scope of it correct. Also interesting, Flew has a new book God and Philosophy due out next year. He has promised to explain this whole hullabaloo in the introduction.