Ford, Lewis S.  "An Alternative to 'Creatio ex Nihilo'."  Religious Studies 19 (June 1983): 205-14.

Abstract

The traditional doctrine of "creatio ex nihilo" is radically unintelligible, as the early Greek thinkers saw, but the central insight can be preserved through revision.  Instead of being conceived as one single nontemporal act taking place in the beginnng of the world, creation can be temporalized into a series of partial, incremental acts, whereby new events come into being out of older events.  This alternative account, largely derived from Whitehead, is applied to Genesis 1, evolutionary theory, and the problem of evil.  [Abstract from The Philosopher's Index]