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The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws of nature…

— Elizabeth S. Anderson

Deism claims that God creates the universe and the laws of nature and then is hands-off, with everything that subsequently happens in nature being…

— Elliott Sober

Deism is compatible with evolutionary theory.

— Elliott Sober

Deism is logically compatible with evolutionary theory for the simple reason that the theory says nothing about the origin of the universe or of…

— Elliott Sober

“Let us remind ourselves of the terminology. A theist believes in a supernatural intelligence who, in addition to his main work of creating the…

— Richard Dawkins

“Pantheists don’t believe in a supernatural God at all, but use the word God as a non-supernatural synonym for Nature, or for the Universe,…

— Richard Dawkins

“Deists differ from pantheists in that the deist God is some kind of cosmic intelligence, rather than the pantheist’s metaphoric or poetic synonym for…

— Richard Dawkins

I have a lot of respect for deists, but I don't consider myself one of them. I think pondering the forces of creation is…

— Greg Graffin

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

— N. T. Wright

Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence…

— Peter Kreeft

In my judgment, the Deists were all successfully answered. The god of nature is certainly as bad as the God of the Old Testament.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

— William Cowper