providence

Something isn't amended by divine providence; it's amended by enough people opposing it relative to the number that support it. Saying you have to support it until it's amended is crazy talk.

Unless you want to deny the providence of most widely recognized mathematicians throughout history, you have to accept that formal language of math is relatively new. Furthermore, it's alive and growing, inconsistant and incomplete.

The providence of the camera doesn't make the camera's owner the copyright holder, any more than using a rented camera makes the rental company owner of the resulting images. Composition and shot timing are the two primary creative acts in photography the monkeys did both.

This produces compelling arguments to back up why "null pointers are a billion dollar mistake" [0] or why if-branching and booleans lack meaningful providence [1]. These ideas, even if they are stripped of their Ivory Tower gleam, are what are slowly percolating into mainstream languages with names like "Enum"++ in Swift and "Optional" in Java.

Yes, insofar as someone has to expend effort which can be converted into providence of basic needs. If someone can work earning $300/day, then he can take the next nine days off, purchase comforts/luxuries which pay enough to sustain nine other people another day, or sustain nine other people another day without obligating the benefit of creating comforts/luxuries.

That the sun is an appropriate star for our life on earth is not divine providence or an enormously unlikely coincidence; it's the result of a universe-wide scenario of statistical multiple endpoints.

"Earth and its ecosystems – created by God's intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence – are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting" - Roy Spencer

Warrants in domestic criminal law are targeted at gathering evidence to be used in adversarial legal proceedings in which the target will have the opportunity to see the evidence against him and challenge its providence. And, because of the exclusionary rule, succesfully challenging the validity of the warrants in those adversarial proceedings can nullify the value to the executive of the warrant and the gathered evidence.