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They are dead; the necessity which called the Deistic ideal into existence is dead; the ideal itself is dead, since Paul preached in
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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This can be a purely atheistic framework, or an explicitly Creationist framework, or some kind of Deistic middle ground.
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This can be a purely atheistic framework, or an explicitly Creationist framework, or some kind of Deistic middle ground.
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It is far more likely that he was an orthodox Episcopalian, and that modern historians who know nothing of religion or theology have taken completely orthodox statements to be Deistic.
Think Progress » Texas Board of Education cuts Thomas Jefferson out of its textbooks. 2010
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Our legal godfathers -- the ones Glenn Beck loves to conjure -- were Deistic liberal humanists whose core beliefs he deeply abhors.
Harvey Wasserman: The Tea Party/GOP Would Hate Our Actual Founders Harvey Wasserman 2010
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Our legal godfathers -- the ones Glenn Beck loves to conjure -- were Deistic liberal humanists whose core beliefs he deeply abhors.
Harvey Wasserman: The Tea Party/GOP Would Hate Our Actual Founders Harvey Wasserman 2010
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Of course, this all depends on the reader being Deistic in outlook, but it does show that people have been working towards reconciling a traditional Christian moral position with evolution for slightly longer than such things have been discussed on the Internet.
How reviewers sometimes tell as much about themselves as about the book - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Let's sidestep the fact that Nazism had at least a Deistic core, Communism was avowedly an atheist ideology.
An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008
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Though labels do more harm than good, I'd say an okay way to describe myself today is Deistic in theory, Episcopal in practice -- so, for fellow history dorks, basically a modern day George Washington (minus the whole American hero thing).
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Meanwhile, a golden oldie involving Dan Dennett and me: our several-year-old video discussion of whether evolution could have a larger "purpose" (as, for example, if natural selection was launched by extraterrestrials -- or by some sort of Deistic God -- who had designed the algorithm of natural selection and then seeded the planet with cells that were expected to eventually lead to intelligent life.)
Robert Wright: The Trouble with the New Atheists: Part II 2009
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