A Defender's Guide to Science and Creationism
By Mark I Vuletic

www.vuletic.com/hume

Assertion 6.5: Evolution entails that humanity was not predestined for existence.


Analysis:

(i) It probably is not possible to prove that humanity was not predestined, since for all we know a sufficiently powerful and meticulous deity might be able to exploit chaos effects or work under the shroud of quantum probabilities to channel the evolution of life down a certain path.

(ii) There are people who argue that certain facts about the universe make the evolution of creatures like humans (though perhaps not exactly like humans) inevitable, even without the benefit of divine direction; if this is true, then a deity could predestine creatures similar to us simply by setting down the laws of nature as we find them.