  But surely, one might object, it is a step backwards to abandon our scientific theories and simply note that God causes what happens in the physical world!  Berkeley’s first response here, that we should think with the learned but speak with the vulgar, advises us to continue to say that fire heats, that the heart pumps blood, etc. What makes this advice legitimate is that he can reconstrue such talk as being about regularities in our ideas. In Berkeley’s view, the point of scientific inquiry is to reveal such regularities: