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.

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

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

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 cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

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

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