Agency and Physical Origins

The Big Bang: Finely Tuned Creation

• The Kalam Cosmological Argument
  • Everything that comes into existence has a cause
  • The universe came into existence
  • The universe has a cause
  • William Lane Craig is arguably the best expositor of the Kalam Cosmological Argument.
• Hume had to argue against cause and effect to support his materialist thesis.

Anthropic Fine Tuning

• The windows of creation
• Hoyle: "A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature." [I take "monkeyed with" as Hoyle's expression of "agency"]

The Laws of Nature

• The existence of laws that apply at all times and places in the universe implies a lawmaker.