(November 7, 2021 at 7:21 am)Jehanne Wrote: This accusation against Dawkins is in Wikipedia, but, it's just one medievalist who is making it. As a layperson interested in Medieval studies, I think that Professor Dawkins was addressing the modern interpretation of Aquinas' Five Ways and not trying to perform some historical analysis of high Medieval Catholic theology.
In short, the accusation against Dawkins is unfair.
The Five Ways look an awful lot like unsupported assertions to me - stuff we regularly discard as PRATTs. Perhaps in Aquinas's day they were convincing, but not anymore.
