[Serious] Thomism: Then & Now

[Angrboda]

I appreciate and can respect your strong feelings sinceI know they are based on careful reflection. At the same time, I am suspicious of bankrupt theories issuing promissory notes.  What you exclude by design up-front, never fits on the backend...whether it is idealism or materialism. As the joke goes No matter; never mind.

I still don't understand the issue.

If you have a bronze sculpture and you melt it down and make a cannon, you've changed the same matter to a different form. If you have a bit of matter in the form of a piece of paper, and you burn it, the same matter has changed to the form of smoke and ash.

Nothing about this is "a band-aid that covers the gaps" in anything. Nothing about it conflicts with what science tells us. 

Has someone been suggesting that hylomorphism demands something else?

Looking over the Wikipedia entry, one issue is how hylomorphism is applied to living beings, including humans.