On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Jim Guinee wrote:
I don't know how long you've been around here, but as much as I respect the intellectuals that make this list so great, I have endured a number of anti-religious remarks over the years.
Very few here seem to want to allow "divine intervention" as a POSSIBLE causal variable.
The problem with "divine intervention" is that it can be presented as a "possible causal variable for _anything and everything_.
Given the above, I don't see how this form of 'causation' can be demonstrated, as opposed to claimed.
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