(May 22, 2011 at 1:50 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: When I look at the universe, I see a grand machine, from the micro to the macro. When I reflect on the human mind and how far we've come, how much seemed to come together in our evolution and hope for how far we'll go, I'm convinced this was intended.
Summer Queen asked me about the philosophy of deism. I'd like to add that one difference deism does make is a sense of optimism about the human prospect. I have a sense that the human race is progressively evolving not just biologically but also morally. We're living in a time of technological adolescence, a point that will make or break our species and our civilization. I have faith that reason will triumph, though the last ten years has tested that conviction.
As for why there is only one, because we have a supernaturally tranquil universe, one governed by only one set of laws. If there is more than one mind behind it all, they are acting as one.
I was probably a deist or pantheist back in the day, also I believed in much the same stuff about human morality evolving in a 'better' direction as well.
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