Reply To: Okay, Nerdy Keith, I'll bite: Why would someone be a deist?

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One of my biggest problems with theism transfers to deism as well, and that is that God needn’t exist due to Occam’s Razor. His existence makes explaining things more complicated and raises more questions than simply believing that things are as they are for reasons we may never know.

The idea of a first cause presumes that causality as we know it traces backward to infinity—even before the inception of the univers—but there is no evidence for that and a lot of reason to think that causality as we know it came into being during the formation of the universe and that before then some other physical laws (or perhaps total physical lawlessness) preceded it.

What is your response?