Divine Providence

The "Hard Cases" column in the Science Times lists "divine providence" among the reasons that could cause an elderly patient discharged from a hospital to have to be readmitted. Personally, I am a believer in divine providence, but it is a factor that is usually so absent from the explanatory framework on display in the Times news columns that I did a double-take when I saw it in the newspaper. It'll be interesting to see whether the Times starts applying it as an explanation in political news articles about election results, military analyses about the outcomes of wars, economic news articles about jobless statistics, and sports stories about horse races or baseball games.