Even so, my case for theism over deism as a better explanation of the origin of biological information does not require proving that all versions of front-loading are logically impossible, but instead only that a fully deistic view of front-loading is scientifically implausible. And, in fact, it is. The universe that Lamoureux and my philosopher friend at the conference were envisioning is a universe that would, like balls on a billiards table, unfold in a perfectly predictable and deterministic way.27 That depiction matches the early nineteenth-century understanding of physics championed by
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