Scientists usually use the notion of God metaphorically.
But this deistic notion of God holds little appeal for the neo-creos.
What resonated for him was the notion of God as "a power" rather than "a person," separate from the world.
Bergson in Les Deux Sources had come much closer to the orthodox religious notion of God than he had in the vital impulse of L'Évolution créatrice.
Second, she noted that this notion of God as an active interventionist in human affairs is fairly common in evangelical faiths, and not just among conservatives.
Scientific, particularly astronomical, discoveries of the late medieval and Renaissance periods were accompanied by a new trust in cosmic laws and an increasingly abstract notion of God.
They talk about renewal, but in their private discourse they expect damnation for an America that has lost sight of the fundamentalist notion of God.
I think why the religious like it, is that it allows them to wrestle with the notion of God and it stretches them mentally and spiritually.
She had been brought up an Episcopalian, she told me, but had rather early "given up orthodox belief" — belief in any personal deity or intention — in favor of a more "scientific" notion of God.
The designer must play God, or at least the notion of God in Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy" — a god that can anticipate the outcome of the player's actions and yet allows the player the feeling of free will.
At that time Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who did more than anyone to develop the concept of theodicy, endeavoured to defend the Christian notion of God against the obvious atheistic consequences that were evoked by the critical thinkers of his time.
