And whether God is everywhere or nowhere depends on what is the nature of natural causation.
In other words, we do not know, and cannot discover, what is the nature of natural causation.
The assumption that successive states of Nature have arisen, each without any relation of natural causationto an antecedent state, is a mere modification of this second hypothesis.
It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life, because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
Such an account of it takes it out of the realm of human interest, because it takes it out of the realm of natural causation, and places it in the realm of the arbitrary, and non-natural.
When we accepted Newton's discovery of the force called gravitation, we virtually surrendered ourselves to the enemy, and started upon a road, the road of natural causation, that traverses the whole system of created things.
Here is another human faculty which Du Bois-Reymond declares never to have been accounted for by natural causation, and he greatly doubts whether it should not be classed among the problems that must be for ever insoluble.
All this is embodied in the term force or physical energy, and less explicitly in that of natural causation.
Footnote 2: By natural causation I mean such a relationship between a and b in a phenomenal system as enables a through its connection with its ground to determine b.
And just as quantitative equivalence is the principle of relationship among the parts of the simple mathematical world, so here in the world of the dynamic or natural sciences, the principle of relation is natural causation.
At the time of writing the Candid Examination I perceived clearly how the whole question of Theism from the side of reason turned on the question as to the nature of natural causation.
Is there anything about the method of natural causation, considered as a whole, that is inimical to the theory of Design in Nature, considered as a whole?
If they are ever to receive any satisfactory explanation in terms of natural causation, this must be furnished at the hands of the psychologist.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural causation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
