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How would a thomist answer how God sustains ugly things in existence? A clear answer please gmbaa.

Rude, false, ignorant

I too thought the moderators should send your post back to you with the reason why it was deleted. But it is not our forum

Devans99, I've answered those objections with discrete segment prime movers and pointing out that our physics don't apply at all to a meta-universe. M...

Final thoughts: If we see the eternal series as staccato/discrete, each segment/set would have its own prime mover. If the motion of the eternal unive...

When dealing with how the mover of our universe can be, science fiction is more helpful than Wikipedia

Descartes was smart and he thought an infinite regress possible as he says in the Replies. I want to watch the Craig -Carroll debate

There can be an infinity of material prime movers within nature going into the past

The OP seems to believe in absolute time. But absolute space is infinitely divisible, so he will have to reject that

The first motion was just that of gravity. There is no space and time before it. Unless there are an infinite set of these motions going into the past...

If someone rejects absolute space and time, general relativity says how the world works

I don't care what the Bible says

Why does the first cause have to be a substance? Buddhism speaks of thoughts without a thinker and action with an actor

Throwing this out there, if particles and antiparticles annihilate each other, this is ontologically different from something arising from nothing. I ...

if absolute time is given up why does there have to be anything like God before the big bang

Christianity, and indeed all religions, sounds like something a sinner would make up. Everyone i see around has done something crappy. Aquinas mention...

If photons have a time perspective, then there is a noise even if nobody hears it

Innocent animals have to feel pain this shows an imperfection in god's nature which the universe reflects

Wittgenstein said he could never understand a !ion. But could Hercules understand us?

So myth goes, Adam, before Eve was made, lay on the grass at night and watched as the revolving heavens (infinity plus infinity, or times) molded logi...

Nothingness has no content whatsoever, but can still be spiritual. "Emptiness is empty" says the Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra

Aquinas's argument is that an "essential" infinite series (into the past) is impossible because every cause would be intermediate and there would be n...

My last observation: if you were to do the Turing test on the best computer physically possible in any physical world, you would not be able to prove ...

It's about imagination and reasoning, not just the latter. It's about what possibly a world could do without God. I don't see how modern science is re...

"I don’t think there’s any one experiment that you can create to prove or disprove the existence of God" Exactly. General physics laws can be used to ...

Those who truly understand the material (energy included) would see with hawking that there is no time for a timeless being to create Those who try to...

I think my marble example applies to a meta universe and the Hawking stuff doesnt. There is also string theory. Michio kaku says you can't prove from ...

As I see it,this universe can be inside another one. There are no intelligent design arguments that would convince me

The marble is the series. The infinite slide is the gravity.

Like I say the first term is gravity, which is outside the series

In the summa theologica Aquinas refuted th kalam cosmological argument but goes out on Aristotle's limb and says the eternal series needs a spiritual ...

For Christians God knew the damned would go to hell in the end and created them anyway

Of you believe in prophecy you have two roads to choose: molinism or compatabilism

He often says a truth is negated, and makes truth a movement. I've read his first book twice and the philosophy of mind

If anyone is interested in commemtary, search "accidental infinite series vs essentially infinite series Aquinas" on Bing

So Aquinas contradicts himself in the first book of the Summa Theologica? I've read it. Do your research please Devan

The Muslim argument is the kalam argument

The book in English is titled on the eternity of the world. It was Bonaventure who believed in the Islam argument Aquinas rejected that Muslim argumen...

I know all about Aquinas. He said the world was not eternal because the bible says so but that reason can't prove it. He says it in the sigma thelogca...

Many think God could have made an eternal universe. Aquinas wrote a book on it

Do you have to do a greater act than the negative of the sin in order to purge it? Do you get your life merits back if you do? Can a punishment take t...

An eternal descending series of dominoe like effects feels intellectually unsastifying . But just because you don't like it, that don't make it false,...

You can never tell if the workings of the universe are based on intelligence. Science will always look for deeper laws

I see all over the internet people saying something is reduced to nothing by way of contraries, and that the universe arose by the backwards process o...

Isn't anti time timelessness

Imagine the prime mover as a marble that has always been sliding down a slide

All i know about are Catholics. THey are always saying the rosary, trying to force themselves to be good. Someday a "Minotaur of conscience" (to use N...

Bare with me. Aquinas said things had truth, a transcendental, in them. But truth is primarily in the mind for him Yet we can posit that there is no t...

The Daodejing says "tranquility is returning", "return to the state of infancy", and "return to the state of the uncarved block". This is the opposite...

Thanks for all the great comments! Hegel believed the substantial Absolute gives birth to nothing and being, which in turn sublate each other into the...