The deists at the time of Darwin and before said the design of nature was like that.
They were
Deists at best.
After two months of being bedridden in severe pain, I cried out to God, even though I was a One who believes in the existence of an impersonal God.deist
deist at the time (I had gone from an agnostic atheist to a deist in college).
hawaiiguest Yes, every intellectually honest scientist should be
a deist at minimum.
Not exact matches
If religion can be turned on its head like this — where the Invisible Hand of Wall Street (invisible to the Justice Department,
at least) is elevated to a faux -
Deist moral philosophy — is it any surprise that economic orthodoxy and formerly progressive tax policy is succumbing?
At the same time, from various motives some Christians, even bishops and clergymen, described themselves as
deists as well as Christians.
Every survey I looked
at lumped agnostics or
deists into the group.
If you go to the deism site and look
at the definition of deism in the glossary, you will see what I like about the handle
deist.
And maybe even my
Deist students more Christian over the long haul,
at least.
Throughout this post we've seen all manner of TAG (Kalam's Cosmological Argument, Argument from Design, Argument from Complexity, Argument from Morality, Logical Absolutes... etc.) every one of which has been thoroughly refuted and
at best would indicate only an extremely unlikely yet possible indifferent
deist creator who set things in motion.
Einstein was,
at highest, a possible
Deist.
That was very christian
at the time but Jefferson was a
deist, no believer in the religious pedlars we see today.
In the 18th century, as I will attempt to show, there was a common set of religious and moral understandings rooted in a conception of divine order under a Christian, or
at least a
deist, God.
At least this is what they publicly admitted to, it could very well be that they were atheist in a time that would not accept this declaration, and so historically they are known as
Deists.
More important to us is the work of H. S. Reimarus (1694 - 1768), a professor of oriental languages
at a Gymnasium in Hamburg, who, under the influence of the English
Deists, wrote a four - thousand - page manuscript Apologie oder Schutzschrift für die vernünftiger Verehrer Gottes, a defense of the deistic approach to religion, which he refrained from publishing.
Because the way you use the term, would mean that every single scientist would be a theist, or
at least a
deist.