"Where did these “designed laws” or “fixed laws”, as he calls them elsewhere, come from? Darwin made no secret of his belief that they were designed by “an omniscient Creator”. The phrase “whether good or bad” is significant and places Darwin in a position not very different from a believer in an impersonal God, who is amoral and uninvolved in the world. So, although Darwin may not have been conscious of deism as such, his own religious beliefs are a good match for deism, or possibly for pandeism (as discussed earlier in this chapter)."