A description which tallies with Jurgen <!g>Moltmann’s writing of the world as a system open to the creative energies of God (see God, Humanity and the <!g>Cosmos, pp218-20). In earlier writing <!g>Peacocke used the image of the cosmos as a developing child in the womb of its mother (in Creation and the World of Science, Oxford: Oxford UniversityPress,1979) p142). As he would be very well aware, this analogy is strictly limited - foetusses and mothers are after all composed of exactly the same material. Another favourite analogy of Peacocke’s is that of God as an improvisatory composer, like J.S.Bach generating his fugues (<!g>Theology for a Scientific Age, London: SCM Press, expanded edn, 1993) pp174-75).