Talk:Act of God

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The Man Who Sued God
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)


 * No one seemed to object, so I deleted it. -R. fiend 05:38, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Pluviculturalist
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)

Merge with Force majeure?
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)
 * Sorry, what I meant to say was: isn't this article about the force majeure clause? Is there actually a separate legal term for "Act of God" which is the same but specifically excludes wars?  --DDG 21:00, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
 * As the article say, Act of God is only for things outside of human control. Force majeure as our article describes (this was the version when you posted BTW ) includes many things which are not outside of human control e.g. crime, strikes, war and riots but are outside the control of the parties of a contract Nil Einne (talk) 15:05, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

The article cites Argentinian law and that's force majeure (Fuerza mayor) --80.37.198.204 (talk) 06:37, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Source citation for Act of God
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)
 * It's on most electronics warranties I come across. Not real sure how we cite those.--Attitude2000 03:58, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I just saw it for the first time on the PS3 warranty —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.162.10.70 (talk) 02:05, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Lightning is a terrible example
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)

The Buffalo and the Act of God
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)

Natural disaster outside human control
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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God is home
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)

History and Theology of "Act of God"
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)