of God and the world, emerged during the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, where, with a strong emphasis on rational observation and explanation, as found in the emerging natural sciences, it was believed that God was totally absent from the world. Perhaps God started the process of nature off with an originating creation—natural laws do seem to indicate a natural Lawgiver—but from then on let the world go on alone. Hence the image of the divine watchmaker, according to which God put the pieces