"In general it is a mistake to infer from the principle of creation that God made everything to be as it is. God creates and sustains a world of natural agents, but those agents then interact with one another according to their abilities and liabilities in ways that have consequences which God allows but need not directly will. . . . From the fact that God made nature it does not follow that God made creatures this or that way, though it does follow from His sustaining creation that He permitted such things to occur. Anyone regarding that as an unacceptable position had better have some other account of how things are not perfect. Besides which, it does not follow from the fact that God permits a condition that he endorses or values it or wishes to see it lived out, or that he is indifferent to these issues."
John Haldane, "It’s Déjà vu all over again," New Blackfriars 100, no. 1087 (May 2019): 259 (249-263). The first "He" appears as "HE," but that looks like a typo to me. Nothing new here, of course, just Theology 101.
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