Process, emergence, and the multiverse

There it's been, resurfacing over the last couple of weeks.

First, in a conversation with the pastor of the church where I grew up, as we sat and caught up about life and faith. "How does that play against process theology?" he asked, as I recounted my reflections on the nexus between faith and the multiverse.

Process theology, in the event that line of God-thinking hasn't crossed your path, is the idea that God is made manifest in the processes of our time and space. Meaning, it is God, evolving, living, growing, and becoming more aware. "The world creates God, just as God creates the world," or so the concept tends to be expressed. It rises out of the process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, one of the most incomprehensibly brilliant thinkers of the 20th century.