(April 12, 2016 at 8:29 pm)snowtracks Wrote: Vera causa* - The principle holds that explaining a particular effect or event requires the sufficiency to produce the phenomenon in question.Here's how it reads....
* “A fairy godmother may be assigned in story as the cause of certain marvelous effects, but is not a vera causa." http://www.seadict.com/en/en/vera%20causa
A fairy godmother may be assigned as a cause but not as a vera causa.
God Jehovah (using that name to specifically identify the Abrahamic god vs the multitude of other gods) may be assigned as a cause and as a vera causa.
Why?
Because we said so.