 In a manuscript draft (“Loose papers whence some things are to be extracted for the Discourse of the causes of Atheism”) Boyle considered three objections that might be made against such a belief: the implausibility of the standard means of bringing about such intervention; the unreliability of the witnesses; and the impossibility of incorporeal beings interacting with matter. He agrees that the first objection, “urg’d with great confidence, and not without much show of Reason” is a strong one, but suggests that “we men understand very little of the nature, customes, &amp; government of the Intelligent creatures of the spirituall world: and particularly what concernes the Falne Angells or bad Daemons. And therefore they being themselves invisible to us, and capable of working in wayes that our sences cannot discerne; and being Agents of great craft &amp; long experience; tis no wonder that many of their actions, thô never so pollytickly contrived &amp; carried on, should seem irrationall to us: who know so little of their particular inclinations &amp; designes, and the subtil &amp; secret methods in which they carry them on.”