Pandeism
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Pandeism is a belief system that can be seen as a combination of deism, where the creator of the universe takes no part in its operation, and pantheism, where God and the universe are one and the same. Pandeism suggests that God (the universe's creator, not necessarily a currently worshiped deity) made the universe by becoming the universe.
Pandeists contend that this answers some objections to both deism and pantheism, namely that deism doesn't explain why God would create, then abandon the universe, and pantheism does not explain where the universe/god originates. Like some pantheists, pandeists see nature and God as synonymous, and that scientific inquiry will reveal the mechanisms by which the universe/god operates.