(January 3, 2023 at 7:40 am)GrandizerII Wrote: So in this context, evolution is not considered by this Thomist to be an essential cause of "the origin of species".
Interestingly enough, natural selection would be considered a confirmation (not a rebuttal) of the Fifth Way according to modern Thomists since it is directed towards an end.
If you want more information, please google
For starters, if evolution is so in tune with Thomistic theology then why has not the Catholic Church acknowledged evolution? At "best" the Catholic Church holds no official position on the theory of creation or evolution.
And when it comes to the research you insist I do on google to see how evolution is so in tune with Thomistic theology, then here is a book for you by Dominican Thomist Father Michael Chaberek
"Aquinas and Evolution: Why St. Thomas' Teaching on the Origins is Incompatible with Evolutionary Theory"
https://www.amazon.com/Aquinas-Evolution...099198806X
"Dominican Thomist Father Michael Chaberek explores the areas in which Aquinas’ philosophy seems inconsistent with the theory of evolution, exposing philosophical fault lines in current evolutionary theory. Father Chaberek, the author of Catholicism and Evolution and a contributor to More Than Myth?: Seeking the Full Truth about Genesis, Creation and Evolution, takes on this sacred cow of modern science with clarity, objectivity and intelligence."
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
