Deism vs. Atheism

[The_Flying_Skeptic]

I don't see anything more harmonic or optimistic about deism than atheism. Anthony Flew was an atheist that became a deist because he could not see there ever being a natural explanation for the origins of DNA. Flew believes in the God of the Gaps in its purest. There is nothing more optimistic about deism than atheism concerning the afterlife: Flew does not believe in the afterlife and thinks heaven would be boring saying that continuous worship of a deity, as some Christians imagine heaven, would get boring. Perhaps not all deists are 'the same' as not all people who call themselves Christian are the same but I believe Flew highlights the main reasons anyone would call themselves a deist.