Deus ex machina, the introduction in high matters of a merely external, material, or mechanical explanation instead of an internal, rational, or spiritual one, which is all a theologian does when he simply names God, and all a scientist does when he simply says Evolution (q.v.).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Deucalion * Deuteronomy