Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion.
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.
Charles Darwin got his theory, his notion of natural selection, evolution, and so did its independent discoverer, Alfred Wallace, from reading Malthus.
The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
My personal feeling is that understanding evolution led me to atheism.
God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed - that is the meaning of evolution.
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
If God used evolution, God came from an ape.