Could God Have Set Up Darwinian Accidents?
I have a paper forthcoming in the Theology and Philosophy journal Zygon, that I thought some of the readers of this blog might find interesting. Here’s the PhilPapers entry:
John S. Wilkins (forthcoming). Could God Have Set Up Darwinian Accidents? Zygon.
Charles Darwin, in his discussions with Asa Gray and in his published works, doubted whether God could so arrange it that exactly the desired contingent events would occur to cause particular outcomes by natural selection. In this paper I argue that even a limited or neo-Leibnizian deity could have chosen a world that satisfied some arbitrary set of goals or functions in its outcomes, and thus answer Darwin’s conundrum. In more general terms, this supports the consistency of natural selection with providentialism, and makes “theistic evolutionism” a coherent position to hold.
I must return to this and ask whether it is in fact true that a fully Leibnizian Deity could realise a block universe in such a way that it met all utility functions. Apparently there is a theorem in economics and game theory that makes this problematic. Anyone Who Knows is asked to note these matters in the comments. There might be a shared paper out of it…
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