Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.