So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.

God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.

When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea that the universe did not just happen, but that there must be a purpose behind it.

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.