Why is it that so many in the atheist community cannot bring themselves to get past their anger whenever they engage in discussions? The language of many of their contributions in public debate is laced with invective and dripping with sarcasm and bile. There are exceptions of course, but they tend to fall more into the category of being the 'exception that proves the rule' when compared to the hostility of many of today's atheist posters. Comment offered by the theists in the public square is often depicted as being 'malicious' or 'venomous' and intended to enslave the 'feeble minded and weak' by those who post. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venom is something that is oriented to death. Christians are oriented in a 180 degree different direction. We speak not to the culture of death that grips our world but rather for the culture of life and light which ends with the gift of eternal life. For example, the Catholic Church in its hum...
Alas modern Quantum mechanics discredits this argument. Using Fr. Barron's of motion as "motus" or change one encounters all sorts of changes in the atomic or quantum realm that have no cause. The simplest is perhaps the process of radioactive decay that science has studied for over a hundred years. There is no cause for it, it occurs randomly, only having a probability of happening per unit time.
ReplyDeleteOne doesn't fault Aquinas for not knowing this but given the results of modern science one can't advocate that proof any more.
Note : Aquinas didn't understand infinite series ass Zeno's paradox was still a puzzle at that time. It took Newton/Lebnitz to discover calculus and make that paradox no more.