The Divine creative power, the power to create ex nihilo, is often thought to be incommunicable: not even God can confer this power on His creatures. Here's one reason to accept such a thesis: if God's creative power were communicable, whatever a creature created in virtue of that power would rightly worship that creature as its Creator. But only God should be worshiped in this way. So the Divine creative power is incommunicable.
But what metaphysically explains the power's incommunicability? Proponents of Divine simplicity can say: it is incommunicable because the power is God, and no creature can possess God as a power. I doubt there's an equally good explanation of this fact on the denial of DDS.
