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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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