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A 4 page paper that discusses Thomas Aquinas' views on creation. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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seeming dichotomy between what science indicates concerning creation and what religion indicates as the truth of God, but what is consistently overlooked in this debate is that this is not
the first time that this has happened in Western history, as during the lifetime of medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas, Christian thinkers were wrestling with the implications of classical Greek science
(Carroll, 2000). The following discussion of Aquinas views presents the idea that this whole debate is fundamentally misguided because Aquinas quite successfully reconciles science to theological truths. In Aquinas
analysis of creation, a major principle is that "the truth of science cannot contradict the truths of faith," as God is the "author of all truth" and, therefore, whatever is
discerned to be true by human reason in regards to the nature of reality "ought not to be challenged by an appeal to sacred texts" (Carroll, 2000, p. 320). Aquinas
argued that the nature of the world "was intelligible to our intellects because both were products of divine Reason" (Gottfried, 1999). This suggests, ironically, that Aquinas would have found theologically
based arguments against what has been revealed as scientific truth to be somewhat heretical, as Aquinas made it his goal to reconcile "Aristotelian science to Christian revelation" (Carroll, 1999, p.
18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western culture, which means that Aquinas, a man of God, was the
most responsible agent for the creation debate of his era, and it was this noted theologian who shaped and dominated Christian thinking for the next several centuries. Aquinas viewed the
miraculous, and certainly creation is the first and most miraculous of Gods acts, as occurring within natural laws. Following the stance of Augustine, Aquinas argued that miracles are not contrary
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