(that is, nonpurposeful), natural order. My discussion will focus on naturalists who are what we call physicalists, people who insist that everything that exists can be reduced to physical or material entities. But some thinkers reject physicalism (that is, they deny the physicalist’s claim that all of reality can be reduced to material entities) yet are also naturalists because they deny the possibility of any divine intervention in the natural order. The famous deists of the eighteenth century