FallentoReason 2.0

[FallentoReason]

It's amazing how close deism can appear to theism; especially when held onto by someone who "doesn't understand enough about it."

That's a bit of a stretch...

Arguably, the only superstition I'm holding is the God-being itself. Never have I said that if you do this or don't do that you will receive some sort of fate or that you won't be in good terms with sky daddy, that there was a select group of tribal people who happened to get lucky and believed in the right god, that you have superpowers when you sincerely believe, that there's even an afterlife, that we have revealed knowledge from this God-being etc etc... I think you're exaggerating!

When put into your words, it sounds like fuckin religion.

So can I be considered the world's first priest for Deism?

You didn't spend years studying deism and then accept it.

Huh? So more years studying it = appropriate reason to believe in it? What sort of an argument is that?? Deism is Deism no matter how long you've studied it for, so chances are you would still be saying the same things about it even if I had studied it for years.

You desired to have some faith and jumped right onto deism knowing it would allow you to think of intelligent design and so forth. You sir are falling into ID.

Finally, a fair point

I don't know what made me inch closer to Deism. I've explained already in this thread that basically I might just be subconsciously biased and I recognise there's order with how the universe functions (laws of physics etc) and that makes me extrapolate and assume something was behind it.

Evolution is a ongoing process in which the very best traits will continue. It makes sense that over billions of years the product of evolution would be things that work extremely well. Nothing was designed; only beautifully evolved to fit right in to this universe. Make sense? This is reasoning.

Good strawman. I couldn't agree more with what you've said.