(September 13, 2018 at 12:10 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: What about the Milky Way galaxy, and all its burning suns? Isn't that a kind of "higher" power? At least a sort of "greater" power in terms of anything an individual human can produce?
It seems to me deists are assigning sentience to a higher power, as a god would have. Something as naturally explained as the Milky Way does not have sentience any more than does a rock.