But pragmatism sometimes is wrong. We won't always agree on theology, so when the effort went ahead I raised no objections. Theologians and anthropologists use the words 'ontology' and 'phenomenology' in talking about these concepts. Go back to the Middle Ages. We are at a convention of scientists who are trying to establish the lifecycle of the housefly.
Proof is presented that houseflies come from either rotting meat or cow dung.
We can fall into the same danger, especially in areas of spiritual warfare and the supernatural. One danger is to attribute to 'scientific causes' what really is spiritual in origin. But recent trends are to formulate complicated cosmologies, descriptions of the spiritual realms, based on what we observe to be true. Read the letter to the Colossians, where gnosticism and spiritual cosmologies were the talk of the town. Something else happened.