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To: Ilaine who wrote (24811)	7/23/2006 10:52:33 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 541024

I was just wondering what this particular person meant. I took it in the context of the work of scientists, which I think would differentiate between the personal and impersonal camps in terms of their capacity and/or inclination to perform science. Thanks for the Wiki link. I didn't know that deists could be construed to believe in a personal god. If you include deists, the notion doesn't have much meaning, IMO, but that's beside the point. To me it means someone who believes that there's a god who decides whose car gets smushed by a runaway truck on the beltway and who in the car lives or dies and to which you can pray so that you don't become a smushee. In the context of religiosity and science, deists wouldn't have a conflict but someone engaged in the personal god paradigm might. It's not necessarily incompatible but there are some constraining factors.