ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the everyday practical dimensions of the problem of causality in science and religion and how these practical dimensions are manifested in other fields such as education, medicine, and the law. Most Christians, while believing in the efficacy of prayer, have nevertheless made peace with standard medical views of causality. The chapter simplifies the problem of causality by attributing all causes to one source, namely God. In view of the apparent complexity of causality, it is understandable that there would be attempts to simplify the topic by searching for a single causal source as the basis for all things. There are problems with supernatural explanations, but there are also issues, disagreements, and problems with naturalistic explanations of causality. Treatment of the problem of causality would be complete with a consideration of the tensions between determinism and free will and the ways these philosophical worldviews play out in science and religion.
