John Wheeler's idea of a one-electron Universe with a single timeless electron travelling all possible worldlines entangling itself up in knots. Without time initially, mass and time would become emergent characteristics of a Universe then said to exist. I have no idea of how quarks and gluons fit into the paradigm since they were discovered after 1941. Nambu's 1949 paper on 'The Theory of Positrons had particle-anti-particle pairs with only a change of time direction rather than actual annihilation. There could be an infinite number field clumps of single electrons in the mind of God exploiting a parameter as if they were Leibnitz' spirtual one-dimensional monads.
If God created a Universe to evolve that does not mean logically that he could not interact with the creatures within it after creation, nor preclude him from making editing changes to the Universe while it evolves. Theologians aren't too modern in thought concerning modal logic nor the Biblical problem of the indeterminacy of translation.
I believe one may learn from comparing the Universe to an operating system like windows or Linux; programmers keep making changes and updates to them after they are created. If one wrote gradually evolving programs so they could be more adaptive that would be closer to resembling the universe that requires change in the temporal order through evolution.
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