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    It is not the case that There is no natural law that distinguishes some events in nature as more natural than others.

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    • 1.Aristotelian natural teleology distinguishes events by whether they fulfill or frustrate a thing's essential nature (telos), grounding a real natural/unnatural distinction.
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    • 2.If teleological natures are real features of entities (as Aquinas and neo-Aristotelians like Foot argue), then events contrary to those natures are objectively less natural.
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    • 1.Statistical normality within biological kinds (e.g., species-typical functioning) provides a naturalistic criterion distinguishing normal from pathological events, per Boorse's biostatistical theory.
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    • 2.A distinction grounded in objective species-typical function is a natural law distinction, not an arbitrary or theological one, falsifying the claim that no such law exists.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.All events occur within 'God or Nature.'
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    • 2.All events within 'God or Nature' are equally natural.
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