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    It is not the case that God could have used the evolutionary process to achieve intended ends.

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    • 1.Darwinian evolution proceeds via undirected variation and natural selection, making specific outcomes (e.g., Homo sapiens) highly contingent and improbable.
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    • 2.A God with specific intended ends would require a process reliably producing those ends, not one where outcomes depend on mass extinctions and genetic drift.
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    • 3.Controlling initial conditions and natural laws cannot determine specific biological outcomes in a chaotic, path-dependent process like evolution.
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    • 1.Elliott Sober and others argue that any 'guided evolution' thesis is empirically equivalent to unguided evolution, making it unfalsifiable and explanatorily idle.
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    • 2.A hypothesis that is compatible with every possible evolutionary outcome provides no genuine explanatory work and cannot ground theological conclusions.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.A God who is responsible for the laws of nature and the initial conditions of the universe could shape the trajectory of the evolutionary process.
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    • 2.Controlling the laws of nature and initial conditions is sufficient to ensure that a process achieves certain ends.
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    • 3.Evolutionary theory does not require that the process be unguided in the metaphysical sense.
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