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RE: Criticism of Aquinas' First Way or of the Proof of God from Motion.
April 25, 2021 at 9:40 am
We owe an enormous debt to the Greeks for laying the groundwork for math and science as we know them today. These things didn't appear out of thin air in the 1700s. True, ancient postulates are ill-informed compared to modern scientific theories... but there is a reason so many of the scientific terms we use today are Greek words.
And Belaqua made an excellent point. Some of the ancients were way smarter than we take them to be. I used to think of ancients like ignorant children who hadn't discovered science yet. Then I read some of what they wrote and learned that I was the ignorant child.
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RE: Criticism of Aquinas' First Way or of the Proof of God from Motion.
April 25, 2021 at 11:02 am
(April 25, 2021 at 8:09 am)Eleven Wrote: A simple hide tag could have fixed that instead of deleting the entire thing.
I love it when I'm more reasonable than mods.
The rules say spam is not allowed. The rules don’t say spam can be fixed with hide tags.
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RE: Criticism of Aquinas' First Way or of the Proof of God from Motion.
April 25, 2021 at 11:06 am
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RE: Criticism of Aquinas' First Way or of the Proof of God from Motion.
April 25, 2021 at 12:14 pm
Can we replace the Serious tag with Bitchy?
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RE: Criticism of Aquinas' First Way or of the Proof of God from Motion.
April 25, 2021 at 5:45 pm
Bugger. I am kind of curious what the OP argued, but unwilling to invest any interest in a seagull post.