“There’s every difference between being a deist and a theist. Science and reason cannot disprove the existence of a first cause or creator. It cannot do that. We can only say that everything works without that assumption and there is no evidence on the other side of the case. This seems to us to license unbelief. To the theistic argument of a god who actually is interested in answering prayers, cares who you marry, who you go to bed with, what you eat, which side wins in a war and so forth, we say this is human propaganda, self-evidently man-made, and the so-called miraculous evidence for it has been repeatedly and conclusively falsified and disproved.”