Is There a Material Cause of the Universe?

"There's some ambiguity with respect to the phrase material cause," he says. "As I understand it, the material cause of a thing is just the stuff out of which it was formed physical or otherwise." He adds that if you have a personal agent who transcends the world, that agent can by thinking bring into reality concrete objects like the universe. Scott Adams: The argument seems to me would be that it leads to a sort of double absurdity.