God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.
John PolkinghorneChance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
John PolkinghorneOf course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
John Polkinghorne