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'''Cause and effect''' is the basic principle of all action. A person makes a [[choice]] to move so as to have an [[effect]] in the world. Some choices are internal and therefore show no visible result, such as planning or repentance.
'''Cause and effect''' is the basic principle of all action. A person makes a [[choice]] to move so as to have an [[effect]] in the world. Some choices are internal and therefore show no visible result, such as planning or repentance.
'''The law of causality''' or '''the law of cause and effect''' is a fundamental law of [[science]] telling us that whatever happens is caused.<ref>{{Cite book
| author = Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks
| year=1990
| title = When Skeptics Ask
| chapter = 10. Questions about Science and Evolution
|pages = 219-221
| isbn = 978-0-8010-7164-5
| url = http://books.google.no/books?id=hF24HwAACAAJ&dq=when+skeptics+ask&hl=en&sa=X&ei=imcgT7foFpPU4QS1m5yIDw&redir_esc=y
| accessdate = 25.1.2012
| publisher = Victor Books, Baker Books
}}</ref> Even the great skeptic [[David Hume]] stated ''"I never asserted so absurd a proposition as that anything might arise without a cause."''<ref>{{Cite book
|author=David Hume
|title=Letters
|editor=J.Y.T. Greig
|publisher=Clarendon
|location=Oxford
|year=1932
|page=187
|volume=1
}}</ref>
[[Scientist]]s try to discover the [[causal association|cause and effect relationships]] among physical phenomenon. For example, a [[bee]] sting may cause swelling in a victim. Or the moon's [[gravity]] affects the [[tides]].
[[Scientist]]s try to discover the [[causal association|cause and effect relationships]] among physical phenomenon. For example, a [[bee]] sting may cause swelling in a victim. Or the moon's [[gravity]] affects the [[tides]].
== References ==
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