Return of the God Hypothesis: Breakthroughs in Physics, Cosmology, and Biology Seeking Evidence for the Existence of God

by Stephen C. Meyer

For example, Sean Carroll, one of the most prominent proponents of naturalism, has acknowledged that naturalism has not explained the origin of the universe, precisely because it can offer no cause capable of producing it. He suggests, however, that the origin of the universe does not necessarily require a causal explanation; it might “just be.” Nevertheless, because the evidence indicates that the universe has not existed infinitely, but instead began to exist, it would seem to require—by the principles of causality and sufficient reason—a cause. Saying otherwise undermines one of the basic presuppositions of scientific investigation and indeed of reason itself, namely, that “whatever begins to exist must have a cause.”