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You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word God to be its grammatical subject.

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Antony Flew
Age: 87 †
Born: 1923
Born: February 11
Died: 2010
Died: April 8
Philosopher
University Teacher
London
England
Antony Garrard Newton Flew
Sense
Letter
Three
Letters
Transmute
Cannot
Subject
Grammatical
Merely
Incoherent
Atheism
Mixture
Subjects
Mixtures
Word
Flew
Words
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