RE: Creationism
August 14, 2020 at 7:28 am
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2020 at 7:51 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The funny part is that he does't actually have other arguments about why the first cause must be a god. That's something he believed because of revelation...because magic book said so.
Keep seeing the same thing over and over, the idea that his arguments only attempted to prove a god, not a christian god. The problem, for the umpteenth time, is that none of his arguments prove a god, any god, of any kind. What he did, was attempt three cosmological arguments, babbled about what would be best and how everything comes from the bestest of bests....then an argument from intelligent design.
Famous because he tried, not because he succeeded. His five ways were more like an orientation packet for priests who wanted to understand aristotelian philosophy. Over the course of his life he would go back and revise them, even revising the idea that any were proofs. Comforting the afflicted, not proving this or that.
If the only thing that a person knows* about saint tom is that he had valid arguments for the existence of a god, that person learned that shit in a church that didn't care about them or their intellectual development....and that's the real sin.
Keep seeing the same thing over and over, the idea that his arguments only attempted to prove a god, not a christian god. The problem, for the umpteenth time, is that none of his arguments prove a god, any god, of any kind. What he did, was attempt three cosmological arguments, babbled about what would be best and how everything comes from the bestest of bests....then an argument from intelligent design.
Famous because he tried, not because he succeeded. His five ways were more like an orientation packet for priests who wanted to understand aristotelian philosophy. Over the course of his life he would go back and revise them, even revising the idea that any were proofs. Comforting the afflicted, not proving this or that.
If the only thing that a person knows* about saint tom is that he had valid arguments for the existence of a god, that person learned that shit in a church that didn't care about them or their intellectual development....and that's the real sin.
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