Author: frankferg

Christian cosmologist

Motion st thomas

On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 10:32 AM Frank Ferguson <frank@frankferg.com> wrote:
Explain and evaluate St. Thomas Aquinas’ cosmological argument for the existence of God: “
“The first and plainest is the method that proceeds from the point of view of MOTION ( as in Constrained Undulating Motion).
It is certain and in accord with experience that things on earth undergo change (Motion).
Now, everything that is moved is moved by something; nothing, indeed, is changed, except it is changed to something which it is in potentiality . . .”
Definition of Motion:
“A” to “B” through medium “C”.

Here “C” is Gravity that is Constrained and Undulates.

Answer including all proofs:Thomas Aquinas Philosophical Proofs on the Existence of God is divided into 3 articles: 1). St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument maintains that the proposition “God exists” is self-evident in itself, but not to us, so it requires demonstration. The article states that God, a perfect being, must exist in all possible circumstances in order to satisfy the definition of his perfection. A God that can exist in only some circumstances, but fails to exist in others is a less than perfect being and therefore not a God.
2). St. Thomas Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument concludes that such a demonstration is possible, despite objections. The article contends that every being is either a dependent being or a “self-existent being”, not every being can be a dependent being and so there exists a self-existentbeing.
3). The Teleological Argument addresses the question of whether God exists. The article asserts “some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God.” In this Article Aquinas offers his Five Ways as proofs for the existence of God. Arguments 1, 2, and 5 are based on observation of the natural world, whereas Arguments 3 and 4 are based on rational speculation. In Arguments 1, 2, 4, and 5, Aquinas concludes that only the existence of God can provide a sufficient explanation for the questions raised. In Argument 3, he concludes that God must necessarily exist for his own sake. Thus, Arguments 1, 2, 4, and 5 conclude that God exists because the world requires him as an explanation, and Argument 3 concludes that God could not notexist.Answer on Cosmological Argument: Thomas Aquinas Philosophical Proofs on the Existence of God is divided into 3 articles: St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument maintains that the proposition “God exists” is self-evident in itself, but not to us, so it requires demonstration. The Teleological Argument addresses the question of whether God exists. The article asserts “some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God.” St. Thomas Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument contends that every being is either a dependent being or a “self-existent being”, not every being can be a dependent being and so there exists a self-existent being. This is the most common form of reasoning behindthe existence of God. In this Article Aquinas offers his Five Ways as proofs for the existence of God.

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MAGIC UNIVERSE

A Grand Tour of Modern Science

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in the accounts, from your point of view. The extra light due to the Doppler effect must be supplied from the star’s energy of motion. But how can the star spare some of its energy of motion, without slowing down? Only by losing mass—which means that light energy possesses mass.

Then come the quick-fire masterstrokes of Einstein’s intuition. It can’t be just the extra light energy needed to account for the Doppler effect that has mass, but all of the light given off by the star. And the fact that the star can shed mass in the form of radiant energy implies that all of its mass is a kind of energy.

‘We are led to the more general conclusion that the mass of a body is a measure of its energy-content,’ Einstein wrote in 1905. He added, ‘It is not impossible that with bodies whose energy-content is variable to a high degree (e.g. with radium salts) the theory may be put successfully to the test.’