I haven’t speculated on the constructive elements of Deism such as the morality of human beings or the existence of the afterlife – try reading the Isaac Asimov short story “The Last Answer” for a radical change in that paradigm. I wont spoil the story by summarising it, but you can read the text here (it isn’t long): http://destructionoverdrive.blogspot.com/2005/06/last-answer-by-isaac-asimov.html

I would also say that one of the critical elements of Deism (the rejection of reports of miracles, prophecies and religious “mysteries” ) is not total (without being too populist, how many times in Star Trek did all of the various crews break the “Prime Directive”?). I watched an episode of the BBC’s “Planet Earth” last year in which I think during the “making of” part, a camera woman in the Antarctic rescued a trapped and dying penguin chick.