Category: Philosophy

In the previous post, we examined the general outline of the Five Ways in Thomas Aquinas’ Cosmological Argument for the existence of God. We examined the ways that something can’t come from nothing because the nature of the universe reveals that physical things are dependent upon some kind of outside, transcendent Uncaused Cause, or Unmoved Mover, or […]

“Nothing Comes from nothing, nothing ever could.” Most people accept this little nugget of wisdom from Frauline Maria and Captain Von Trapp. In our experience of the world, we never observe something coming from nothing. It would indeed be wonderful if I could conjure up a free new iphone out of nothing, or a nice […]