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.

Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.

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

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

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

The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.

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