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Does The Man Who Sued God need to be mentioned here? It's a bit of a stretch. Having it under the headling "The Movie" makes it sound like the movie is called "Act of God", which apparently it isn't. If every article had a section about movies the topic has appeared in we would have thousands of pages with unnecessary movie sections. And this movie is pretty obscure to boot. - R. fiend 15:04, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Whilst I can make an educated guess at what 'pluviculturalist' means, it's a bit obscure – I wasn't able to find a definition in my own dictionary, dictionary.com or Wiktionary. Indeed, Google only came up with a total of 21 results for the word, Yahoo only doing slightly better with 24. I suppose it is the correct word for the job, but might it not be a little off-putting for some?
This San Diego anecdote doesn't provide much value either. Especially, "excluding him from liability but also from payment." The ruling may have excluded him from liability because the floods were an Act of God, but the issue of his payment is totally unrelated. The way it reads implies that somehow the Act of God classification meant he couldn't be paid. 24.110.86.83 06:05, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Aren't these two terms essentially describing the same topic? -- DDG 20:14, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
No, as war is not an act of God, yet is usually included in a Force majeure clause. David 20:42, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
The article cites Argentinian law and that's force majeure (Fuerza mayor) -- 80.37.198.204 ( talk) 06:37, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
We need a source to verify that the phrase "Act of God" is indeed a legal term. Sources are also needed to verify the example given at the end of the stub. -- backburner001 15:46, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Lightning strikes people even inside houses; there's not really that much you can do to change your risk. I have personally witnessed lightning destroy a tree at the bottom of a tree-covered hill, and the lightning had traveled several miles to do it, passing over much taller trees and hills. So I'm changing the example to a real one. Shrikeangel ( talk) 11:45, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
Should we add the West Canadian story of the priest, the buffalo, and the Act of God? Killorf ( talk) 18:26, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
This needs to be elaborated. What kind of natural disasters can there be within human control? Natural itself implies that the cause is natural and not caused by humans. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A03:1B20:3:F011:0:0:0:A01D ( talk) 13:35, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
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I need to find out how to sue God I know that he’s home I can actually Bring him to court 66.74.60.148 ( talk) 05:24, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
Was hoping to find a historical discussion of the term "act of God". There is obviously some significance to a flood being ascribed to [the usually Christian] "God" and not say, fairies, the planets, some as-yet unknown scientific process, etc. Was disappointed this is not present in the article. With some Google scholar digging it appears some articles may fit the bill. Ex. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.86.1.101 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/eh/2011/00000017/00000001/art00008 https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/oxfjls13&div=21&id=&page= https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/harvard-theological-review/article/abs/on-the-meaning-of-act-of-god/035E1B248A520B3C6F8698A303942FD0 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=act+of+god Anonymous-232 ( talk) 17:22, 24 October 2023 (UTC)