Is Deism a "cop out"?

[GrandizerII]

Is 'deism' another way of saying 'it's turtles all the way down?'

Yep, pretty much.

But once you realise that even the deist God suffers the same logical problems as any other type of creator God (e.g., acting within timelessness, creating something out of nothing) then even deism is not a plausible explanation for the existence of the universe.

People who have a hard time accepting the existence of reality independent of God as a brute fact are relying more on their own intuition (with several fallacies in thinking) rather than logic that is properly used.

Also, Einstein was more of a pantheist (in a poetic sense) rather than a believer in a concrete personal being that created the universe.