ABSTRACT
A super-naturalistic explanation attempts to explain features of the world by describing the supernatural processes that produced them. It is easy to find facts about the world that science can’t explain now. Because there are plenty of facts about the world that science can’t explain now, it is easy to construct a particular kind of abductive argument for the existence of God. There are two kinds of things science aims to explain. It aims to explain particular events, and it aims to explain generalizations. Clarke’s argument makes use of an idea that has long been influential in philosophy. Maybe it makes sense for scientists to assume that consciousness has an explanation even if they have no evidence at all that such an explanation exists. The fact that scientists search for explanations without a guarantee that they will succeed is not evidence that the Principle of Sufficient Reason is true.
