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

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.

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

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

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

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