the science Shermer admired had done a great job of explaining how the universe and life operate, but that it had not offered adequate materialistic explanations for the origin of life, mind, or the universe. But that suggested to me that materialism as a worldview lacked significant explanatory power. Is it possible, instead, that a theistic worldview—a God hypothesis—might help explain what materialism or naturalism has not—or perhaps cannot? If so, would the explanatory power of such a God hypothesis provide a reason for favoring theism over other competing metaphysical hypotheses?
