As I said, my own views tend towards an equation of Infinite Universe with God. Hence, the Creation and the Creator are, somehow, one. These are verbal devices that, however clumsy, help me to define my beliefs.

Bill, I'm sorry that you spent so much of your time in churches, classrooms and libraries and didn't find any answers. Others haven't been quite so frustrated. I fully understand that Einstein didn't believe in a personal god, but that doesn't make him an atheist. He was one of a great many scientists who held religious beliefs of one sort or another. Science or Religion? That is a false dichotomy. At best, they complement each other.