any cause capable of explaining the origin of the universe and its fine tuning must in some way stand causally separate from the universe or, in philosophical terms, transcend matter, space, time, and energy. Materialists themselves have tacitly conceded the need for a transcendent explanatory entity by positing universes beyond our universe and abstract nonmaterial mathematical entities (such as those in quantum cosmology) as explanations for the origin of the universe and its fundamental attributes.
