The whole sh-bang is the decree of God as the best means to accomplish the best end (manifestation of the glory of God's attributes).
Agreed.
That comment reminds me of someone (kinda famous, though I can't remember her name) who was touted at being good at making quantum theory understandable to the common person. She was asking how does a ray of light know the quickest route to reach any particular object under the surface of water. From the source, the light goes in a straight line to the surface of the water, and from there at a sudden angle to the object. When I said, "It doesn't know, it doesn't care, it is not appropriate to call it even the quickest way --it is the ONLY way for the ray of light to go from the source to the object.", it was like I had interrupted a church service with a loud heretical statement.
It is not just the best means and best way. It is the only means and the only way, because God ordained it; God establishes the fact of it --there is no other way, there can be no other way. Everything else is human, "Yeah, but what if?" supposition.
And if any one detail had been different, something about the whole of it would be different.
Everything, every detail and every larger fact, about that end result depends upon the beginning. I have reason to think that even his 'interventions' were planned from (part of?) that beginning. As that science writer said, "The seeds that everything we see now grew from, were sown in the Big Bang." (The point is logical, even if there was no actual big bang, because everything results from what came before it.)
And God is specific in every detail the specifications for what he is building.
