Can you think of an effect that lacks an adequate cause? For example, you find a gallon of milk in your frig. You will not think that it just appeared or that chance quantum phenomena mysteriously came together to cause it. Instead, you will correctly conclude that an intelligent being had placed it in your frig. Why? Because other causal agents are inadequate to explain the appearance of the gallon of milk.
The cause(s) must always be greater than its effects. Without this, scientific inquiry would have to admit that some part of the effect is without cause, and that it just happens or appears. This conclusion is a science-killer!
To apply this conclusion to grander questions: What cause is adequate to account for the immutable, elegant, and universal laws of science? Whatever the cause, it would have to account for the laws being sustained unchangingly so that science can explain, predict, and the world doesn’t collapse as the laws shift. It must explain how they operate universally and uniformly, even to convey truths about other galaxies.
“Natural causation” cannot cause these things as it cannot explain the gallon of milk in the frig. The only adequate cause is an uncaused, eternal, omniscient, and omnipotent Being, the Being described in the Bible.
