(October 22, 2019 at 12:31 am)Belacqua Wrote:(October 22, 2019 at 12:25 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: Aquinas, if I am not mistaken, explicitly wrote that the world, at least for the most part, looks exactly as we would expect it to be if there were no God.Where did he say this? Do you recall the exact words?
Aquinas - Original Latin Wrote:Quod potest compleri per pauciora principia, non fit per plura. Sed videtur quod omnia quae apparent in mundo, possunt compleri per alia principia, supposito quod Deus non sit, quia ea quae sunt naturalia, reducuntur in principium quod est natura; ea vero quae sunt a proposito, reducuntur in principium quod est ratio humana vel voluntas. Nulla igitur necessitas est ponere Deum esse.
Aquinas - English Translation Wrote:Further, it is superfluous to suppose that what can be accounted for by a few principles has been produced by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle which is nature; and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.
