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  1. Divine Design and Evolutionary Evil.Mats Wahlberg - 2022 - Zygon 57 (4):1095-1107.
    In this article, I first interpret and evaluate the main argument of E. V. R. Kojonen's book, The Compatibility of Evolution and Design. I then address a challenge against this argument (as well as against design arguments in general), namely, the problem of seemingly malevolent and bad designs in nature. Evolutionary theodicists commonly deal with this problem by assuming that the evolutionary process is not fully under God's control. This solution, however, is deeply problematic from the perspective of classical theism. (...)
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  • The significance of freedom in God’s plan.Andreas May - 2023 - HTS Theological Studies 79 (2):8.
    By means of a synthesis of Christian faith, theology and natural sciences, the significance of freedom in God’s plan of creation and redemption was contemplated. The triune God is the foundation of all freedom. The freedom of his creatures is extremely important to God. Despite the Angelic Fall, he created our universe, in which on the path of evolution human beings were given the freedom to choose for or against God. Possibly, the humans who committed the Adamic Fall belonged to (...)
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  • The significance of freedom in God’s plan.Andreas May - 2023 - HTS Theological Studies 78 (2):8.
    By means of a synthesis of Christian faith, theology and natural sciences, the significance of freedom in God’s plan of creation and redemption was contemplated. The triune God is the foundation of all freedom. The freedom of his creatures is extremely important to God. Despite the Angelic Fall, he created our universe, in which on the path of evolution human beings were given the freedom to choose for or against God. Possibly, the humans who committed the Adamic Fall belonged to (...)
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  • Promising Paths and Dead Ends in Evolutionary Theodicy.Mats Wahlberg - 2023 - Neue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 65 (1):44-54.
    In this article, I first reflect on the background of the debate between myself and Eikrem and Søvik and make some clarificatory remarks about the term “Only Way argument”, which figured in the article that started the exchange. I then map areas of agreement and disagreement between us, with an eye to discerning promising and less promising paths forward in the field of evolutionary theodicy. Finally, I respond to Eikrem’s and Søvik’s criticism of my previous arguments about token-goods.
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  • Van Gogh’s Painting and an Incestuous Universe.Atle Ottesen Søvik & Asle Eikrem - 2023 - Neue Zeitschrift für Systematicsche Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie 65 (1):34-43.
    This article continues a discussion the authors have had with Mats Wahlberg on evolutionary theodicies. We have previously suggested a theodicy where there are token unique goods that could only have been actualized through indeterministic evolution. Wahlberg objects that we cannot appeal to such goods, since given indeterminism, God cannot know that such goods will appear. In this article we respond by arguing that God can know well enough that certain kinds of token goods will appear, without knowing in detail (...)
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