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— Louis Agassiz"The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man."
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Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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With pantheism...the deity is associated with the order of nature or the universe itself...when modern scientists such as Einstein and Stephen Hawking mention 'God' in their writing, this is what they seem to mean: that God is Nature.
— Victor J. Stenger
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