# Naturalism Steelman

Naturalism explains many local mechanisms well: physical regularities, biological adaptation, cognitive mechanisms, social formation, grief experiences, and many ordinary historical processes.

The Signal pressures naturalism where the whole field must be preserved together: intelligibility, reason, consciousness, morality, mathematics, fine-tuning, historical revelation, Resurrection witness structure, and Christ as Logos.

Comparative worldview coverage is still uneven. Naturalism should not be dismissed merely because the current row set gives `H-NATURALISM` a near-neutral dependency-adjusted result. Local scientific mechanism support is not automatically the same thing as worldview-level naturalism support, and mechanism explanations can be real without settling metaphysical naturalism. Better positive steelman rows for naturalism, reductive physicalism, nonreductive physicalism, emergentism, and secular humanism remain a live audit target.

Naturalism pressures The Signal through evil, hiddenness, religious disagreement, textual complexity, miracle priors, and the danger of overreading dependent evidence.

Do not compare Christianity to weak naturalism. Consider nonreductive physicalism, emergentism, structural realism, moral realism without God, social-cognitive religion accounts, and naturalistic accounts of visionary experience.

The question is not whether a worldview can explain something. The question is whether it can preserve the whole field without reduction, contradiction, evasion, or borrowed capital.
