(So to state it differently, Christianity says that the God which you are talking about, does indeed not exist.)
[1] Transcendental meaning that it is not only the origin of specific things, but of space, time and causality itself. God is not before the big bang, because the meaning of before is in fact something that only exists in the universe. God is as much before, after and next to the big bang as he is to now.
This is why to me it seems pretty logical, that modern atheism occurred in a christian dominated culture. It's not that the atheists invented a new idea. They simply "forgot"(more like didn't agree) what Christianity says a God is, returned to the definition of God from the Antiquity and "simply" rephrased the criticism Christianity already voiced for millennia.
This assumes (your concept of) God is subject to time or/and causality, which makes it non-trancendental.
> God is transcendental by definition
Yes, but not by everyone's definition, which is the point.
It also could very well be the case that there's a limit not only to the complexity of things a human mind can grasp, but also to the simplicity thereof, and the concept of God may be located beyond the latter.
I think this is one of the hints the Programmer gave us that once we reach the needed level of sophistication we'll understand. Similar to the ending in the book "Contact".
Bringing the concept of God into a biology discussion is sort of embarrassing. "Intelligent design" is for the unimaginative mind. We must always be open to being wrong, evolution fits what we know now, but I'm sure in a century we'll have a better understanding and it'll be a more complete understanding, but what it won't need is a divine eternal.
The world's not flat, there is no god. Can we get back to science now.
An Alien God (as a way to view evolution) from 2007 on lesswrong, isn’t comforting:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pLRogvJLPPg6Mrvg4/an-alien-g...
"""the Shaper of Life is not itself a creature. Evolution is bodiless, like the Judeo-Christian deity. Omnipresent in Nature, immanent in the fall of every leaf. Vast as a planet's surface. Billions of years old. Itself unmade, arising naturally from the structure of physics. Doesn't that all sound like something that might have been said about God?
And yet the Maker has no mind, as well as no body. In some ways, its handiwork is incredibly poor design by human standards. It is internally divided. Most of all, it isn't nice.
In a way, Darwin discovered God—a God that failed to match the preconceptions of theology, and so passed unheralded. If Darwin had discovered that life was created by an intelligent agent—a bodiless mind that loves us, and will smite us with lightning if we dare say otherwise—people would have said "My gosh! That's God!"
But instead Darwin discovered a strange alien God—not comfortably "ineffable", but really genuinely different from us. Evolution is not a God, but if it were, it wouldn't be Jehovah. It would be H. P. Lovecraft's Azathoth, the blind idiot God burbling chaotically at the center of everything, surrounded by the thin monotonous piping of flutes."""
It sounds like you actually refer to pantheism, which is very much different from Christianity.