Parables concerning God are connected
with observable events and people, but the onlook points to God's hiddenness.
A metaphysics that allows for the influence of subjective experience on
objectively observable events is quite different from the seventeenth - century metaphysics that still holds sway in science.
A permanent state has been reached in which no
macroscopically observable events occur, a state which the physicist speaks of as thermodynamical equilibrium or «maximum entropy.»
The philosophic ideal was to explain the flow
of observable events from the perspective of the structure of pure thought.
Second, given that much of the parents» prenatal experience is unobserved by the medical or policy communities, we investigate two
observable events during the prenatal period that may signal an increased risk of pregnancy complications and provide an access point for policy to intervene — fathers» attendance at the 20 - week ultrasound, and fathers» attendance at the birth.