To forestall another multipage detour, I observe that “their Creator” as the term was used by Jefferson and his contemporaries did not mean the fundamentalist God, the Chriustian God generally, nor even the Deist deus otiosus who built a clockwork Universe, wound it up, and walked away., Think of the Star Trek Vulcan concept of cthia, where right knowledge of a presumably self-effectuating Universe leads logically to right action. One of my favorite scenes from Star Trek, highly relevant here, is when Markj Lenard’s Sarek, after confirming that Vulcans operate by logic and not emotion, is then asked why he married his human wife Amanda. He quirks an eyebrow and replies, “It was logical.” 