Refusing to arbitrate the possibility of divine causation to avoid controversy merely takes a methodologically agnostic stance; to reject the possibility of divine causation, however, takes an atheistic or deistic one.[26] The latter (atheistic or deistic) position is not philosophically neutral.[27] Why is it so common in academia? Because academicians, like others, are often unconsciously shaped by the worldviews that we take over from our intellectual heritage, frequently uncritically.
