A Lesson in the Practicality of Philosophy I Learned Today

[Neo-Scholastic]

@Pick-up & Genkaus, I think you both mistake the demonstration for the inquiry when it comes to theistic ontology. Take for instance a premise like "Everything that changes is caused to change by another." A common critique is the the term "everything that changes" slips in the idea that there is something that doesn't change, i.e. God, into the initial premise. This critique does not take into account the history behind it. In this instance, the premise is designed to avoid the erroneous conclusions of Parmenides (change is not possible) and Heraclitus (there is only change). Thus, the fault is not in the demonstration but on your insistence that it stand alone, uniformed by any historical context.