(October 21, 2021 at 1:17 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(October 21, 2021 at 12:20 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Since no theist has ever managed to establish God as a first cause, it remains special pleading in this case.
You are of course invited to participate on the serious thread, Thomism: Then and Now. Given your likely modern approach to causality such an objection seems valid but in truth its kind of a non-sequitur since the Prime Mover and similar demonstrations rest on Aristotelean metaphysical understanding of cause.
What would Aristotle say about the spontaneous transitions of electrons in bounded atomic or molecular orbits?