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Explain the God as a Clockmaker Theory.

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Answer: Deists believed that we can know there is a God based on natural evidence: all the laws of science and things we see in nature. But theirs is a view of a God like a clockmaker, who set the world in motion with all its logic and reason and natural laws and order, and then left the world (the clock) to operate on its own.

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