Gold and silver are valuable products. Some men and women will practically sell their souls to get them. At the particular minute that Adam fell there must have been a mysterious movement of gold and silver throughout the world. Or consider the matter of climate. And so the climate must be supposed to have become bad because of Adam's Fall.
Heat can be painful.
There is no causal relation in either case. If the whole relationship of men to natural events is seen in a false light, all derivative sciences will have a defective foundation. When Scripture interprets them that way in those specific cases, we see no reason for not accepting those interpretations. We can understand, too, that special modern calamities are ascribed, in the subjective opinion of people of faith, to specific present-day sins. They may be right or they may be wrong.