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To: Elsie

"theistic - deistic


What's the difference?"

I was just being silly. However, theists generally believe in a personally involved god (i.e. Christianity, Islam, Judaism), whereas deists believe in a higher power, deity, supreme being, who does not or cannot get involved in the lives of individuals. I, for instance, believe that god doesn't make natural law, but rather that god is natural law. That is, the structure of the universe is god.

Although since you ask, when it comes to the theory of evolution, I suppose that there really isn't a significant difference between theistic and deistic evolution.


250 posted on 05/23/2005 2:21:31 PM PDT by Chiapet (Chthulu for President: Why vote for a lesser evil?)
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To: Chiapet

good answer


387 posted on 05/23/2005 8:39:28 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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