‘The notion of God and His creation must be eliminated at all costs.’
No, it is just the opposite.
We know God has existed forever, and we know this phase of the universe has not existed forever.
God contracted the previous phases of the universe and will contract this universe.
http://www.aish.com/tp/i/moha/48931772.html
... the Holy One, blessed be He, went on creating worlds and destroying them until He created this one, and declared, ‘This one pleases Me; those did not please Me.’” Rabbi Pinchas said: “This is R. Abahu’s reason: ‘And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good’ (Genesis 1:31). This pleases Me, but those did not please Me. (Midrash Rabbah - Genesis III:7)...
Are you a Buddhist?
I'm not. I'm a Christian. And I read, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." The ancients took that to mean the physical cosmos.