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Interesting article for all you theorists out there.

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Thomism at ~2am!!!

I possess the insight to appreciate that I have a FR problem.

Thomas Aquinas wrestled with the implications for Christian theology of the most advanced science of their day — namely, the works of Aristotle and his Muslim commentators, which had recently been translated into Latin.

It would be truer to say that Thomas Aquinas rescued the works of Aristotle from his Muslim commentators.

Averroes - Aristotle's primary muslim commentator - advocated the principle of twofold truth, maintaining that religion has one sphere and philosophy (science) another.

The concept that there can be more than one truth is another way of saying there is no truth. This concept was congenial to Islam with its arbitrary and inconsistent deity. And we see the fruits of this philosophy down to the present day: not just in the crazy, murderous inconsistency of Islam, but in the crazy, murderous inconsistency of the Left.

But the concept of divided Truth won't do for reality - for the real God and the real world. This is one of Aquinas' great gifts to posterity: the idea that the Truth Is What It Is.

For instance: no future scientific discovery can actually disprove God, so we can embrace science (objective, old-school science, not 'modern' science) without fear.

Thank you. This was very interesting.