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RFayette 🇻🇦
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« on: May 21, 2015, 06:01:00 PM »

As an actual movement? No.

As a set of views? Sure, there are plenty of functional deists now. Many nominal Christians and nones have a vague belief in God without affirming any particular religion. Surely there are deists in their number.

This.  Christianity can be as much a culture as a set of religious doctrine for many people.  There are plenty of self-identifying Christians who believe in things like reincarnation, spirits staying on Earth etc.  So I'm sure you'd find deist-like viewpoints in some of them.
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RFayette 🇻🇦
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Junior Chimp
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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2015, 06:04:29 PM »

No, I don't think so. It's an 18th century idea - basically, people were trying to be rational and spiritual/religious simultaneously, and I think we're at a point where that's no longer necessary. If one is inclined to religion and tradition, one will likely choose that intellectual path. If one is inclined toward the physical and science, then that, which was still in its infancy in the 18th century, will be the choice of path. They're now pretty much mutually exclusive. At least I don't see a way of reconciling them in the present.

Being a Christian != being Ken Ham, people.
There are many doctors, engineers, and scientists who believe in God and are at least nominally Christian, like Francis Collins, for instance.  You can choose both a religious path and a scientific one if one would like - I mean, the Vatican has an observatory and nearly every non-Baptist/fundamentalist religious university teaches at least some science. 
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