The purpose of this proposal is to develop and exploit new approaches to establish an in vivo cause - and - effect relation between nuclear and mitochondrial aging processes. (ellisonfoundation.org)
The concern with intelligent design is that it explains phenomena away from cause effect relations. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
A concept of natural cause - and - effect relations accords with all the presuppositions of science but seems to have an impersonality about it which is not easily fitted into a conception of God's personal care and guiding providence. (religion-online.org)