[GunRunner]

And computer programs CAN write themselves, of given basic parameters to react to certain conditions. My company sells a neural modeling API that does such a thing.

By the same philosophy, creator sets up process of DNA creation, process takes over.

That's still deism, not theism.

[Olog-hai]

The basic parameters are still set by the living, or sapient. Computers did not build themselves nor their initial operating code write themselves.

The only etymological difference between so-called “deism” and “theism” is the origin language (the former Latin, the latter Greek), anyhow.