Called "the religion of the Enlightenment," deism flourished ished in eighteenth-century France and England and soon found its way across the North Atlantic to New World hearts and minds. ________, in its many varieties, was advanced by the discovery of the telescope, which charted the vast heavens, and the microscope, scope, which glimpsed a world in a drop of pond water. ________ credited the "infinite architect" with fashioning the universe and infusing it with energy and orderly laws, like gravity. God's work was done so well that he need not interact with his creation. For the deist, there is no divine revelation in Scripture, no God-man savior, no personal god who hears and answers prayer. God can be known in a general way, but only through the design of his creation. ation. _________ in Enlightenment France was promoted by Voltaire, Denis Diderot and Jean Jacques Rousseau, and in America by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas *Paine and Ethan Allen, among many others.

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