The second of Aquinas' five ways illustrates the lack of God, who according
The second of Aquinas' five ways illustrates the lack of God, who according to Aquinas, is the "first efficient" one of these factors. Since not everyone with CFTR mutations gets cystic fibrosis, CFTR mutations are necessary but not sufficient ones. Aristotle differentiated these factors into material, formal, efficient, and final ones. For an acorn, Aristotle's final one, or telos, would be an oak tree. Regularity analysis determines these factors using two constantly conjoined events, from which we habitually induct these according to David Hume. For 10 points, effects result from what factors that cannot be solely established by correlation?
The second of Aquinas' five ways illustrates the lack of God, who according to Aquinas, is the "first efficient" one of these factors.
causes [accept causality] 