Sentences with phrase «supernatural causes»

Would they have blamed that same supernatural cause if they didn't win?

I repeat the idea of an unknown natural beginning is far and away more reasonable than an unknown supernatural cause.

If this is so, it does not make sense to suddenly postulate supernatural causes or metaphysical purposes when these events happen to have a strong impact on our lives.

It does not credit natural or physical law with enough causal power to enact evolution on its own and educes supernatural causes to do most of the heavy lifting in worldly events.

Science has never verified calimed supernatural causes (Voo Doo, magic, prophacy).

In the past, many such risks — such as pandemics and earthquakes in the pre-scientific world — arose without the potential for foresight and were blamed on supernatural causes.

@Truth «Even if the universe required a cause then why is an unknown natural cause less likely than your unknown supernatural cause?

The fact that you don't understand what it is, how to measure it, or how to create or move it doesn't mean that it has a supernatural cause.

The cases to which you refer in which scientific explanations replaced religious explanations prove conclusively that believers can credit a god for things we eventually determine have no supernatural cause.

Can the winner claim some supernatural cause was the reason they won?

These natural and human causes are «simpler» than any supernatural causes we might suggest.

And whilst a supernatural cause can always be invoked, natural causes should not be overlooked.

This does not deny that there is also a natural order of causation, but the fullest explanation in natural terms does not in any way affect the need for understanding the whole network of natural causes as wholly dependent for its being and preservation upon a supernatural cause.

They are all so many expressions of the fact that when our eyes are opened to the finitude, insufficiency, or contingency of ourselves and the environing entities, we perceive every aspect of these entities as pointing directly to a supernatural cause.

Behind the earthly causes and cures there are supernatural causes and supernatural cures of the disease.

This new culture, increasingly global in extent, does not look to supernatural causes but to natural causes.

The crux of the argument is just how is a natural cause less likely than a supernatural cause?

But in Jewish thought an event which is contrary to nature, which occurs outside of the known and ordinary chain of cause and effect, is called a miracle and ascribed to a supernatural cause, to the act of either God or demons; for Satan as well as God can work miracles.

And since they lived in a prescientific age, when anything — naturally caused or otherwise — could happen, they did not hesitate to relate events as having supernatural causes.

@sale, yet one thing is certain, nearly all things once attributed to supernatural cause have been determined to be of natural origins.

Why attribute a supernatural cause for the universe just because we don't know the actual cause?

Just because you would like dark energy, etc., to be evidence for supernatural causes, doesn't make them so.

Other tribal chieftains on Sumatra and the neighboring islands also assumed the sounds presaged some sort of invasion, but once they received reassurance on that score, they ascribed the explosions to supernatural causes.