0 an influence that is not human in origin and is thought to control people's lives:
divine providence
1 the care and control of God or of a force that is not human in origin:
We should resist the temptation to follow him, however misanthropic we may be, because human wickedness and incompetence without providence will produce only chaos.
One theory of divine providence allows for this.
The laws that govern nature's activity reflect the divine providence, ensuring the stability and order of nature.
These insights and associated tools can therefore support providence and exploration with either least or specific design decision commitments.
Their concept of divine providence (pronoia) might provide an indication.
But they arise quite naturally when we begin to think seriously about divine providence.
Nature or, for many nineteenth-century observers, providence was the ultimate cause of the potato blight - and providence, of course, could only be praised.
Descartes could maintain (not without controversy, but with some plausibility) that this understanding of providence does not entail causal determinism.
