RE: Aquinas's Fifth Way
November 28, 2014 at 11:42 am
(This post was last modified: November 28, 2014 at 12:02 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(November 28, 2014 at 11:29 am)FifthElement Wrote: You still did not show how is infinite causality chain impossible..At the Planck scale the regress stops.
(November 28, 2014 at 11:26 am)Rhythm Wrote: Is it taken as a given or is it an observation? You seem to think that it's an observation when you make an argument for god...but call it a given when science is concernedScientific inquiries are about what the types of knowledge follow from that observation. Asking why the observation holds is a philosophical inquiry about what precedes the observation.
(November 28, 2014 at 11:26 am)Rhythm Wrote: Point to a specific cause that produces a consistent result and perhaps someone could explain why that is, to you, and why it could not be otherwise?
(November 28, 2014 at 11:26 am)Rhythm Wrote: Do plants possess intelligence?...then whatever intelligence may be required to direct things.. seems…marginal.Yes, plants have a kind of have a kind of intelligence derived from their nature as hylomorphic substance (a compound of essence and existience). The nature of a supreme or overarching intelligent is reserved for subsequent arguments. For now it is only necessary to acknowledge a fundamental intentionality responsible for making reality intelligible.
