God created the world and everything in it.  

In the Episcopal Church, we generally believe evolution was a perfectly good way to do it, but what's really important is that one way or another, we owe our being to God.

Far from a distant, uninterested God, we are invited to think of God as Father, a loving and concerned parent.

We stick with the "Father" language because that's the language Jesus used.  If a mother is a better image of a loving and concerned parent for you, by all means run with it.  God's deep parental love for us is more important than the gender we apply to God.