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    If developmental processes serve intrinsic goods—such as allowing creatures to be genuine secondary causes—then their existence is compatible with, not evidence against, creation ex nihilo.

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    Key Terms

    Compatible with(as used in logic and philosophy generally)
    Able to exist or be true at the same time without contradicting each other. Two ideas are compatible if one doesn't rule out the other.
    Creation ex nihilo(Presented as the root of the Torah in Falaquera's popular works)
    The view that God brought all created beings into existence from nothing, and that the world is produced and not eternal
    Evidence against(epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    Facts or observations that would suggest a claim is false or that cast doubt on whether something is true.
    Genuine
    Something is genuine when it is real, authentic, and exactly what it claims to be—not fake, counterfeit, or pretending to be something else. For example, genuine leather is actual leather rather than synthetic material, or a genuine apology comes from sincere feeling rather than obligation. The word describes anything that is honestly and truly itself without deception or imitation.

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    Intrinsic goods(in ethics and value theory)
    Things that are valuable for their own sake, because they're good in themselves, rather than because they help you get something else (like parental bonding is valuable just for existing, not just because it produces other benefits).
    developmental processes(as used in philosophy of biology and theology)
    The natural ways that living things grow, change, and develop from simpler to more complex forms over time.
    secondary causes(Carroll's neo-Thomistic model of divine and natural causation)
    Natural creaturely causes that operate within the world; in Thomistic metaphysics, these are grounded in and dependent upon the primary cause

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