Mark Schreiner

This paper argues that the God hypothesis is not merely unnecessary but theoretically problematic and ontologically costly. By examining the structure of reality through internal tension, cumulative dynamics, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), we suggest that certain forms of classical theism face serious explanatory challenges. Drawing upon the concept of ”Universal Acid” and the history of scientific unification, we argue that if a transcendent, immutable God existed, empirical reality might be expected to exhibit more static features. However, evidence from thermodynamics, evolutionary biology, and quantum cosmology instead supports a fundamentally dynamic, self-organizing universe. The God hypothesis thus appears as an ontologically expensive and explanatorily unstable theoretical posit.