Looking back into the depths of history to dissect the web of causation can be a web of infinite spinning if one is to examine each causation to every event. Although it would flow toward the present in a natural chain of events, no historian could possibly record all of the events of his day while ultimately uncovering every interconnected occurrence. However, as Christians we may look to an ultimate cause for guidance and answers instead of spinning the seemingly endless web of immediate and remotely linked causes.
Whereas a secular statistician may find their self wrapped up in loose ends during the process of the elimination of bias, a Christian may look to God as the ultimate will. During the enlightenment and the extreme social movements of the 1900s, Protestantism suddenly was null and void in America's society. Although the founding fathers built a Constitution inclusive of God and His law, the extreme social movement left many changes in its wake. This revolution changed the definition of the ultimate cause drastically. Now it is a well-known norm in society that the explanation of ultimate cause is a ""chance" or "probability"" according to Butterfield.
The other two forms of causation are normally considered alike by Christians and secularists. Immediate causation factors are those experiences that are directed by the events of a life and the path taken. On the other hand, remote causation factors are those that are outside of someone's control. Thus, although there are 3 categories for which to define causations, the definition of ultimate causation has been split unnecessarily after more than a hundred years of constancy.