Clockwork universe
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The clockwork universe is a concept which compares the universe to a mechanical clock. It continues ticking along, as a perfect machine, with its gears governed by the laws of physics, making every as
Tim Wetherell's Clockwork Universe sculpture at Questacon, Canberra, Australia (2009)
Deism
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Deism is the belief, based solely upon logic and observation while rejecting any supernatural speculation, that a Supreme Being or God created the universe. As a philosophical position and rationalist
Clockwork universe
…It evolved during the Enlightenment in parallel with the emergence of Newton's laws governing motion and gravity. This idea was very popular among deists during the Enlightenment, when Isaac Newton derived his laws of motion, and showed that alongside the law of universal gravitation, they could predict…
Lord Herbert of Cherbury, portrayed by Isaac Oliver, c. 1603–05
David Hume
Thomas Paine
On positive German God-belief (1939)