  Church accepted that Turing's definition gave a compelling, intuitive reason for why Church's thesis was true. The recent exposition by Davis (2000) emphasises that Gödel also was convinced by Turing's argument that an absolute concept had been identified (Gödel 1946). The situation has not changed since 1937.  (For further comment, see the article on the  Church-Turing Thesis.  The recent selection of Turing's papers edited by Copeland (2004), and the review of Hodges (2006), continue this discussion.)