God is not the creator

• griffin rejects the traditional christian belief in creation out of nothing
• he adopts an alternative translation of genesis 1:1-3
• the universe has always existed; it is uncreated and eternal- it was therefore not created by god
• god, like the universe, is uncreated and eternal
• the relationship between good and the universe is panentheistic

  • they exist together just as the human mind and human body exist together
  • the universe is in god and god is in the universe
• panentheistic

  the adjective used by process theology to describe the relationship between god and the universe. god and the universe exist together in the way that human minds and bodies exist together. everything is in god and god is immanent in the universe
• god's role in relation to the universe is to persuade it into order and complexityP:?

  • this attempt has gone on for 13.7 billion years, using the processes of the Big Bang and of evolution
  • the world's independence of god explains the very slow and arduous progress