Here is another quote from the former high priest of Darwinism.
"A widespread theological view now exists saying that God started off the world, props it up and works through laws of nature, very subtly, so subtly that its action is undetectable. But that kind of God is effectively no different to my mind than atheism. To anyone who adopts this view I say, Great, were in the same camp; now where do we get our morals if the universe just goes grinding on as it does? This kind of God does nothing outside of the laws of nature, gives us no immortality, no foundation for morals, or any of the things that we want from a God and from religion.
William B. Provine, Progress in Evolution and Meaning in Life, in Evolutionary Progress, ed. Matthew H. Nitecki (University of Chicago Press, 1988), p. 70
Which is deism, always inadequate, because—ironically—it leaves man , the observer,out of the account. How does he fit into the picture ?