All Dreaded_Anomaly needs for the argument I take him or her to be making is that those things are not known to be caused by “agenty things”. More precisely: Will Newsome is arguing “interesting things tend to be caused by agents”, which is a claim he isn’t entitled to make before presenting some (other) evidence that (e.g.) trees and clouds and planets and elephants and waterfalls and galaxies are caused by agents.
All Dreaded_Anomaly needs for the argument I take him or her to be making is that those things are not known to be caused by “agenty things”. More precisely: Will Newsome is arguing “interesting things tend to be caused by agents”, which is a claim he isn’t entitled to make before presenting some (other) evidence that (e.g.) trees and clouds and planets and elephants and waterfalls and galaxies are caused by agents.