Re: No more back shoes

In <mqtrj1pmovqhb31nosqa3095is9bh82qol@xxxxxxx>,
wkambic@xxxxxxx wrote:
}On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:43:13 -0500, John Hasler <john@xxxxxxxxxx>
}wrote:
}>Deism postulated a "prime mover" that inititated the universe and took no
}>active interest in it thereafter: closer to the big bang than to the
}>personal god of Christianity.

}> It died out as open atheism became
}>respectable.
}
}Why? The two are hardly the same.

Only to the extent that you differentiate a "prime mover" from the "big
bang". Once the "pm" loses interest, the results of either are
indistinguishable.

/JBL

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