This position was taken up and elaborated by an Austrian priest-anthropologist, Wilhelm Matthäus Schmidt, who reversed the evolutionary theory, holding that there was a primordial notion of a supreme being, a kind of original intellectual and religious conception of a single creator god, that degenerated in subsequent cultural stages.
This ceremonial village was the axis of the cult of the birdman, a religion centered on a creator god, Makemake, that replaced the ancestor worship of the moai religion.
Before converting to Islam in the seventh or eighth century, the Malagasy clans that later intermarried with Arabs to found the Antemoro dynasty were monotheists who believed in a creator god and numerous spirits that served as intermediaries between living beings and the creator.
As an American Catholic, I believe that the evidence for a creator God is also overwhelming and that we and the universe are far too complex and wonderful just to have happened by accident.
"They can't define it the way Mason, Madison and even the United State Supreme Court defined it, 'the duties we owe to the creator and the manner of discharging it.' They don't want to do that, because that acknowledges a creator god.
For Christians, a strange dislocation often seems to exist between the ecological crisis and a heritage that includes a Creator God.
He states openly that he is a believer in a creator God; he is not, he says, a biblical, 6-day creation literalist.
It can encompass belief in a "higher power," some force or unified creator or God that is bigger and more powerful than oneself, and untethered to traditional churches or doctrine.
Either way, they appear to be unaware that the Founding Fathers' "nature's God" is a reference, probably a pointed one, to their Deist conception of a strictly creator God, a detached deity that does not trouble itself with the outcomes of football games, illnesses, elections, or wars, including culture wars.
So if, as creator, God wills that I decide to attend a concert this evening, then my decision to do so is causally determined, just as it would be had I been driven to it by an insatiable desire for Beethoven.
Waugh is a creator-god ("J. Henry Waugh," "Yahweh": Get it?
