Is atheism a scientific perspective?

[Mudhammam]

Aquinas takes up the notion of Divine Simplicity in Question 3 of the Summa which I doubt many creationists or IDers have read or pondered. My understanding is that complexity arises from the great variety of deficiencies in contingent beings. It is analogous to a thousand different shards produced from a shattered crystal ball.

Yeah, but I would say that "Divine Simplicity" is another issue altogether, wherein is basically contained the idea that the deity is not a composite body or being consisting of matter and form.  In that sense, the "self" is also simple.  However, when Aquinas then tries to pass the divine property of infinite knowledge of all past, present, and future events (and nonevents) as a simple, all-encompassing act of intuition, I find the whole idea of "Divine Simplicity" to be suspect, if not incoherent.  But either way, the argument for Divine Simplicity cannot aid creationists, for the naturalist is equally at liberty to define the ultimate substance as simple too -- but without having to then make it compatible with a capacity of "infinite knowledge" or other such properties and relations that are often predicated upon a God, especially a trinitarian one -- and has the advantage of being far more consistent in their description of said simple substance or being.