The contingency of the universe can then play a role in theology: it is a ‘prediction’ of systematic theology (i.e., the datum of the world’s contingency is ‘explained’ in terms of <!g>the theology of creation) as well as a philosophical ‘datum’ for <!g>natural theology (i.e., the datum of the world’s contingency serves as a basis for an ‘argument for God’). t=0 can thus play a helpful, if indirect, role in both systematic theology and natural theology, for it gives concrete empirical content to the much more diffuse philosophical meaning of contingency at work in these theologies.