(October 5, 2021 at 4:00 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Oh, are you? I guess that means that you believe in a god who set things in motion and doesn't intervene. No magic books, no "intelligent design".........
I think we don't really agree on the definitions.
Deism: belief in a creator who may or may not intervene in the universe. Simply put, any kind of belief in a creature.
Theism: belief in a creator who intervenes in the universe.
It's clear that theism belongs to deism. There are of course definitions of deism (which exclude any divine intervention) that clash with theism. Under these definitions, I am not a deist, OFC.
(October 5, 2021 at 4:00 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Oh, idk, you're talking to me as though I exist. Seems like my feet may have left tracks on your mind. You do have a point, though you probably don't realize what it is,....are you certain that the thing you call nudger, and all of the specifics you would assert as contained within that header..actually do exist?
Nice dodging, Nudger. You're a very funny person.
Are you going to defend your rule "absence of evidence is evidence of absence"...... or just stop being disingenuous yourself..?