DIVINE ACTION - IS IT CREDIBLE

The concept of God's acting in the world has been seen to be problematic in light of the claims of scientific knowledge that the regularity of a lawlike universe rules out divine action. There are resources in both scientific knowledge and religion that can render meaningful and credible divine action. The new physics, chaos theory, cognitive psychology, and the concept of top-down causation are used to understand how God acts in the world. God's action is not an intervention, but is understood on the model of how the mind influences the brain in a downward causative manner. Suggestions for imagining God's actions are discussed.