I got an interesting book about physicians and metaphysics I want to reccomend to you all. I don't know if an english translation exists. Dürr, Hans-Peter and others: "Gott, der Mensch und die Wissenschaft", Augsburg 1997 ("God, Human and Science") It is based on a diskussion by five scientists from physics, philosophy, theology, and biology.

Personally I believe there is no gap between physical and metaphysical views of the world. Following christian lore god created the world from nothing, which means he is no part of it, but the world be part of god.

This is in no way differing to physical theories about the universe. Time being part of the space/time-continuum, would be created by god as well as the rest of the world, so the question "What was before the big bang" doesn't arise when you are looking for a metaphysical entity.

physics only describes the structure of the world, not the outside, which would be neccessary to win scientific results about the existence of god or other metaphysical beeings. But it is not the job of physics to think about such problems.

The word "Meta-physics" describes all this in a perfect way.

But when you accept the existence of a metaphysical entity, it is irrelevant wether the "quantums" forming the world are intelligent by themselves or just following the rules set up by the creator, because everything being part of this "super-natural" intelligence. Everything is part of the creation,so it is part of god.