for me it hasn’t been about the guy in the sky but the notion of coevolution
for example, i lean heavily towards the notion of emergent properties
The sum does things that the parts don’t and the parts can’t predict what the sum does
like layering
but why are there these relationships that lead to things like layering and emergence
and that’s where the panentheism comes in for me
it’s a kind of a space that a platonic realm could occupy perhaps
far from eternal and changing, I believe it grew along with the universe
instruction set? Rules that seem to emerge as it comes along – where to collect the sets of behaviors?
that’s the realm that contains the rules that these things seem to follow
so it’s not a pregnant God model at all for me
but rather a coexistence of physical plus who knows what and who knows what is the other part
even if all the contains as “just the law of nature”
then thats what it is
it’s where the tendencies are
I don’t think new objects rediscover their properties: the properties come “with”, including such things as aging and decay