{"id":1604,"date":"2022-06-03T01:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T01:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2022-06-03T01:54:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T01:54:08","slug":"faulty-logic-from-st-thomas-aquinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"Faulty Logic from St. Thomas Aquinas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Rule #1:\u00a0\u00a0every effect needs a cause.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then go back through everything to God.<br \/>\nThen God needs a cause.<br \/>\nOtherwise, Rule #1 is fallacious.<br \/>\nOr Rule #1 is incomplete.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let\u2019s reform Aquinas logic more completely:<\/p>\n<p>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Premise:\u00a0\u00a0God exists.<br \/>\n2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0Premise:\u00a0\u00a0God does not need a cause.<br \/>\n3<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0Premise:\u00a0\u00a0Every effect (except God) needs a cause.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then all effects chain back to God.<br \/>\nThen the logic stops.<br \/>\nBut this chain of logic is a tautology.<br \/>\nYou are starting with the premise that you are attempting to prove.<br \/>\nSo, you prove nothing.<br \/>\nYou are concluding with what you agreed to at the beginning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule #1:\u00a0\u00a0every effect needs a cause.\u00a0 Then go back through everything to God. Then God needs a cause. Otherwise, Rule #1 is fallacious. Or Rule #1 is incomplete. Let\u2019s reform Aquinas logic more completely: 1st\u00a0Premise:\u00a0\u00a0God exists. 2nd\u00a0Premise:\u00a0\u00a0God does not need a cause. 3rd\u00a0Premise:\u00a0\u00a0Every effect (except God) needs a cause. Then all effects chain back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalview.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}