Then he withdrew from active involvement with the world, becoming, so to speak, Creator emeritus. The progress of the created order is free of direct influence by God. He is the Creator of everything, but only the first living form was directly created. All the rest of God's creating has been done indirectly. God is the Creator, the ultimate cause, but evolution is the means, the proximate cause.
Deistic evolution has little difficulty with the scientific data.
There is a different story with respect to the biblical material, however. There is a definite conflict between deism's view of an absentee God and the biblical picture of a God who has been involved in not merely one but a whole series of creative acts. In particular, both of the Genesis accounts of the origin of man indicate that God definitely and distinctly willed and acted to bring man into existence. In addition, deistic evolution is in conflict with the scriptural doctrine of providence, according to which God is personally and intimately concerned with and involved in what is going on in the specific events within his entire creation.