Deism

Deism is the belief that the universe was created by a God who then made no further intervention in its affairs, often expressed by the metaphor of the "Divine Watchmaker" who created a mechanism so perfect as to be self-regulating.

Deists are thus skeptical of accounts of miracle?s.

Deism was popular among thinkers of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire and the Founders? of the United States, but serious advocacy of deism is unusual among more recent theologians.

Compare: theism, atheism, agnosticism, pantheism, panentheism

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