The characters in the book are unwittingly at the mercy of the author's whims in the same way that, according to Biblical tradition, human lives are subject to the designs of their supernatural creator.
He stressed statements by the main sponsor of the law and other supporters that the concept of creationism as science posited a supernatural creator and that the theory of evolution was an affront to God.
Previously, creationism was a generic term describing a philosophical perspective that presupposes the existence of a supernatural creator.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of the "Pastafarian" parody religion, which asserts that a supernatural creator resembling spaghetti with meatballs is responsible for the creation of the universe.
The fact that the universe abruptly exploded into existence out of apparent nothingness some 15 billion years ago, they submit, means it must have had a supernatural creator.
In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argues against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms.
In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion-"a fixed false belief".
It was one part biology lesson, one part political theater, and the biggest stage yet for the emerging movement known as intelligent design, which posits that life's complexity cannot be explained without a supernatural creator.
The major criticism of theistic evolution by non-theistic evolutionists focuses on its essential belief in a supernatural creator.
God is most often conceived of as the supernatural creator and overseer of the universe.