BFP, you comment: "i think that personifying god is putting limits on the idea's majesty..." I agree.

Have you read anything about the process of 'emanationism'?
I think of it as the bridge, even the balance, between creationism and evolutionism. IMO, emanation is an inclusive concept.

EMANATIONISM

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Emanationism is a component in the cosmology, or cosmogony, of certain religious or philosophical systems that argue a sentient, self-aware Supreme Being did not create the physical universe.

Instead an insentient Absolute emanated lower and lower spiritual modalities and lastly matter as the resultant efflux of the Absolute.

The only lasting place where the totality of emanationism is still observed is by Neoplatonists and some Advaita Vedantists.


BTW, check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanationism