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    Challenges→If God guided the evolutionary process with the goal of creating morally significant creatures capable of relation with God, it would not be accidental that humans have largely correct moral beliefs

    A perfectly competent designer intending moral truth-tracking creatures would not produce populations with systematically incompatible foundational moral commitments across history.

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    Designer (in philosophical context)(philosophy of religion and metaphysics)
    A creator or intelligent being responsible for bringing something into existence; here, it refers to whoever or whatever created humanity.
    Foundational moral commitments(ethics)
    The core, basic beliefs about right and wrong that form the foundation for everything else a person or culture thinks is moral.
    Moral truth-tracking(epistemology of ethics)
    The ability to accurately understand and recognize what is actually right and wrong, similar to how a thermometer tracks actual temperature.
    Systematically incompatible(logic and reasoning)
    Contradictory or opposed to each other in a way that follows a pattern, meaning they cannot all be true at the same time.
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    Skilled, qualified, or capable enough to do something properly and make valid judgments about it.
    intending(Davidson's later refinement, assuming intention is a mental state)
    A pro-attitude consisting in an all-out, unconditional judgement that the action is desirable

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