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In some circles theism still maintains its older meaning of specifically a deity which is a personal, involved one. The opposite of deism rather than the opposite of atheism. Deism was atheistic.Deism is the belief in a god and atheism is the lack of belief in a god. So they are mutually exclusive.
Surely there is a more succinct name for that though.In some circles theism still maintains its older meaning of specifically a deity which is a personal, involved one. The opposite of deism rather than the opposite of atheism. Deism was atheistic.
There's also some deists who believe there was a God but now there isn't (left, or used itself to create the universe) and identify as both deist and atheist.
I agree that's why I identify mainly as a deist. But like so many other "ism" words, there's a broader range of meanings than any simplistic dictionary definition can really capture.deism and atheism have a meeting point. deism teaches that god created a perfect world that can be maintained on its own, that's where atheism kicks in. atheism with deism make a perfect religion in my opinion. there is no superstition and everything is logical.
I consider deism a type of theism. I would likely have been a deist had I lived between the first wave of scientists that revealed a clockwork universe that runs without gods - planets orbit, apples fall, gases equilibrate, and electrons flow through wires without gods pushing them around - and the second wave of scientists that showed how the universe and life could self-organize without a builder once certain seeds were present - the singularity and the first cell.
That first wave of discoveries demonstrated that a ruler god was not necessary, but unable to account for the universe or the tree of life we find all around us, a designer and builder god was still needed. Once we were past that, atheism became tenable. Deism is the transition between Abrahamic monotheism and atheism.
Deism is the belief in a god and atheism is the lack of belief in a god. So they are mutually exclusive.
Wrong, science has uncovered no evidence at all for any kind of God.Science only shows that an interactive God has no evidence for it
So its a 50/50 thing? Either God exists or he doesn't? But we could say that about anything. Is there life on Mars - either there is or there isn't. Will I win the lottery this weekend? Either I will or I will not. Come to think of it, I should definitely have a flutter at those odds. Funny how it doesn't work out that way at all! There are of course a million and one different ways of being wrong about the existence of God just as there millions of ways of not winning the lottery.Yes, but they are also the only two reasonable positions on the existence of God. Funny how it worked out that way.