Has any Christian philosopher ever argued that naturalism can be shown to be false?
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From [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)) :
> In philosophy, **naturalism is the idea or belief that only natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe**.
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> > Naturalism is not so much a special system as a point of view or tendency common to a number of philosophical and religious systems; not so much a well-defined set of positive and negative doctrines as an attitude or spirit pervading and influencing many doctrines. **As the name implies, this tendency consists essentially in looking upon nature as the one original and fundamental source of all that exists, and in attempting to explain everything in terms of nature**. Either the limits of nature are also the limits of existing reality, or at least the first cause, if its existence is found necessary, has nothing to do with the working of natural agencies. **All events, therefore, find their adequate explanation within nature itself**. But, as the terms nature and natural are themselves used in more than one sense, the term naturalism is also far from having one fixed meaning.
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> — Dubray 1911
Has any Christian philosopher ever argued that naturalism is [falsifiable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability) , that is, that it is possible to show empirically that naturalism is false?
Alternatively, what are Christian positive arguments for the falsehood of naturalism?
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https://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/37251/have-creationists-advanced-any-particular-theories-of-origin-that-they-claim-are
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