(February 9, 2016 at 9:57 am)ChadWooters Wrote: Fortunately Aquinas's 5 ways do not depend on a specific cosmological model. All that matters is that reality is intelligible. Physics is a second order discipline contingent on philosophical first principles known by observation.
Formally, my physics education never went past the high school level, but I can tell you for certain that no philosophy was discussed in that class at all, and that it was most certainly based on math-first principles.
Keep on pontificating, and see how much respect it garners you!
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