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.

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

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

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

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.

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

However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.