You must do what was planned, which means you can not change anything, that prayer can not possibly have any impact, and that you are playing the role you were designed for eons ago, and thus can not possibly be responsible for anything you do. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Wildfire has been natural in Africa for eons of time, not breaking into tropical rain forests but certainly into the forests of the plateaus and changing these secondary successional forests into grassland savannas. (scientificamerican.com)
In a different way, this is again the theme of abstract versus concrete; but the abstraction involved is a selective attention by our senses that has developed over eons of evolution. (religion-online.org)