Date
4-26-2024
Department
Rawlings School of Divinity
Degree
Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics (MA)
Chair
Jordan Ballard
Keywords
scientific naturalism, teleology, chance, necessity, design, fine-tuning, gravity
Disciplines
Christianity
Recommended Citation
Crosby, Aaron R., "The Insufficiency of the Causal Mechanisms of Scientific Naturalism" (2024). Masters Theses. 1125.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/masters/1125
Abstract
Chance and physical necessity, serving as the two accepted causal mechanisms of scientific naturalism, are incapable of explaining the origins of gravity, the gravitational constant, and other fine-tuning parameters associated with Big Bang Cosmology. This thesis explores the origins of Scientific Naturalism, the discovery of fine-tuning parameters associated with Big Bang Cosmology, and several theories proposed under the paradigm of scientific naturalism that attempt to explain, through either chance or physical necessity, how the universe originated.
