If intrinsic structural limitation in a creature's essence constitutes a degree of evil per the Absence Theory, then God selecting which essences to instantiate makes God the author of essentially evil beings.

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Absence Theory(Theistic metaphysics; offered as a theodicy to explain how God does not create evil): The view that evil consists in an absence or privation rather than a positive created thing, such that absence is uncreated.
Intrinsic(describing the kind of continuities that ground identity): Something that belongs to or is part of something by its very nature, rather than coming from outside or being relational.
author(suggests God would be responsible for creating inherently flawed beings): In this philosophical context, the creator or originator responsible for something's existence or nature—not just someone who writes books.
essence(Medieval realist metaphysics): The defining nature of a species, held by some to be distinct from and capable of surviving the destruction of all individual members of that species

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