CoH Wrote:That's the problem with deism. It's a claim of something existing without even a claim. It's the most clear-cut version of "goddidit."
In his defence (and speaking for myself) Deism is appealing because it cuts out all the superstitional bullcrap and gets down to the last plausible proposition: God exists. Forget miracles, dead men coming alive, prayer, divine command theory, salvation, divine justice blah blah blah.. all of that has been refuted by science (the study of God's Creation) and reasoning from the Deist's p.o.v. therefore, I'd say Deism is the most modest claim out of all the supernatural claims.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle