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Originally Posted by GeddyBass2112
Deists believe, to put this simply, in a God who created the universe according to the scientific principles we observe for ourselves, and that this same God gave us the gift of reason, with which we understand the universe.
This God however is limited ONLY to creating the universe, and setting up those initial principles which allowed the universe to come into being as it is today.
To answer the question, atheism is similar to deism in that it rejects superstition and replaces it with scientific and logic principles, but the major difference is that in the case of the deist, there exists a God who gave us those principles.
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Deism is the only form of theism I can respect, however...
"If the general picture of a big bang followed by an expanding universe is correct, what happened before that? Was the universe devoid of all matter and then the matter somehow, suddenly created? How did that happen? In many cultures the customary answer is that a god or gods created the universe out of nothing. But if we wish to pursue this question courageously, we must of course ask the next question: where did god come from? If we decide that this is an unanswerable question, why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question? Or if we say that god always existed, why not save a step and conclude that the universe always existed?"
Then where did God come from? (Carl Sagan) - YouTube