dhw: Delighted to see, though, that he reckons God gave autonomy to the beings of the universe, and let them develop individually. Nothing about preprogramming or dabbling there. (NB You can’t have autonomy if you are preprogrammed.)

Twisted his words: "allowed them to develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one. " Sounds like implanted rules to me, for individual development and perhaps evolution.