"`` A Law of Nature then is the rule and Law , according to which God resolved that certain Motions should always , that is , in all Cases be performed . Every Law does immediately depend upon the Will of God. `` Gravesande , Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy , I , 2-3 , 1726 , quoted in CC Gillespie , Genesis and Geology , 1959 . Judges 21:15 `` 4 The people were still disconsolate over Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach among the tribes of Israel. `` 4 . 4 [ 15 ] Had made a breach : what is here attributed to God was in reality the free and deliberate act of the Israelites and happened only by the permissive will of God . The ancients attributed to the first primary cause what is more directly due to secondary causes. `` http : //www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/judges/judges21.htm `` Yes , God 's eternal decree is being worked out , but the working out of that eternal decree is done through his interaction with people , and through their decisions and actions . The role that man 's actions take in the working out of God 's will is called a `` secondary cause. `` The Westminster Confession of Faith explains it this way : `` God is the first cause , and in relationship to Him everything happens unchangeably and infallibly . However , by this same providence , He orders things to happen according to secondary causes . As a result of these secondary causes , some things must inevitably happen ; others may or may not happen , depending on the voluntary intentions of the agents involved ; and some things do not have to happen but may , depending on other conditions ( WCF 5.2 ; I 've quoted from Summertown Text 's modern version ) . `` http : //www.thirdmill.org/answers/ans ... ions/site/iiim"
"So the main disagreements between fundamentalists and theistic evolutionists are what are , and are not first ( primary ) causes . And atheists believe everything is a second cause ( or first cause ) with no intelligence behind it . It still does n't make any sense to me why theistic evolutionists are in such agreement with atheists , and so far apart from `` fundamentalists `` ."
"A Law of Nature then is the rule and Law , according to which God resolved that certain Motions should always , The Westminster Confession of Faith explains it this way : `` God is the first cause"
"the main disagreements between fundamentalists and theistic evolutionists are what are , and are not first ( primary ) causes . And atheists believe everything is a second cause"