The Gospel of “Just”: Naturalism’s Shrinking Vocabulary and Growing Debt

There’s a gospel naturalism preaches, and it goes like this: “It’s just.”  

It’s just matter. Just energy. Just chance. Just neurons. Just evolution. Just language. Just logic. Just morality. Just you.  

But behind that tiny word—“just”—is a collapsing empire of miracles they refuse to name.

First, nothing explodes into everything—for no reason, from no cause. 

Miracle number one.  

Then, physical laws appear—fine-tuned to one part in 10^120. Gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear forces—all precisely balanced for life. 

Miracle number two.  

Then lifeless matter spontaneously organizes into coded, self-replicating, symbolically meaningful systems. DNA isn’t just molecules—it’s syntax, semantics, and execution. 

That’s miracle three.  

From there, blind evolution supposedly generates integrated biological systems with irreducible complexity and layered regulation. 

Miracle number four.  

Next, consciousness emerges—not just computation, but qualia, will, awareness. 

Miracle number five.  

Then logic and reason arise—immaterial, invariant, universally binding—from brains that evolved for survival, not truth. 

Miracle number six.

And at every step, when they hit the wall of explanation, they wave the wand and say the word: *emergence*.  

Consciousness? “It emerges.”  

Language? “It emerges.”  

Morality? “It emerges.”  

Symbolic logic in DNA? “Emergent properties.”  

Observer-triggered wavefunction collapse in QM? “Emergent from decoherence.”  

But “emergence” doesn’t mean anything if you can’t show the mechanism. It’s a label for magic in a worldview that forbids miracles. It’s saying, “This impossibly complex thing... just kind of showed up when enough stuff was around.” That’s not a theory. That’s a shrug in a lab coat.

And nowhere does this sleight of hand show more than in quantum mechanics.

In QM, particles don’t have defined properties until they’re observed. Probabilities rule. Measurement creates outcomes. Entangled particles communicate instantly across space. The system doesn’t “just behave”—it behaves *as if an observer matters.* And that wrecks the whole materialist model.

So they add layers: many worlds, hidden variables, decoherence theory—all trying to stuff the soul back in the machine. But the machine won’t cooperate.

Why? Because the universe doesn’t behave like a dead mechanism. It behaves like it’s being computed. Governed. Constrained by logic, drenched in information, awake to observation.

Naturalism can’t make sense of that. So it reduces, flattens, and spins.

You are not mind. You are meat.  

Morality is not obligation. It’s survival behavior.  

Consciousness isn’t special. It’s a trick.  

QM isn’t metaphysical. It’s misunderstood.  

Logic isn’t prescriptive. It’s adaptive.  

And when none of that works? “It just emerges.”

This is what happens when you try to explain a universe full of meaning, order, and mind without any foundation for meaning, order, or mind.

But Christians don’t need a magic word. We have a rational, personal, eternal source—*the Logos*.  

Not blind chance. Not spooky emergence. Not a roll of the quantum dice.  

A mind that speaks. A Word that upholds. A truth that explains everything else.

So the next time someone says, “It’s just…”—ask:  

What miracle did they just rename?  

What mystery did they just shrink with a buzzword?  

What rational leap are they asking you to make—without a rational foundation?

Then offer them a better way.  

The Gospel not of “just,” but of Jesus.  

The only Word that doesn’t collapse under the weight of meaning.

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