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It’s more that Aquinas’s proofs are outdated. His way at looking at the world are not consistant and really bizzare with the way we realize the universe to be currently.Does anyone know if Hawkings’ theories, especially imaginary time disprove any of Aquinas’ 5 proofs. I heard on another thread that all of Aquinas’ proofs can be disproved by modern science, is this true?
His argument from motion and the efficient cause, which are basically the same argument, are greatly put into questioning today by Quantum Physics, Stephen Hawkings’s various theories, as well as many others. They take away the old certainty of the reality of cause and effect. The Dual Slit Experiment is one experiement that has shown that at the quantum level, classical cause and effect really doesn’t apply, and at the Big Bang singularity, it is all at least as complicated or more as quantum physics.
The basis of the third argument, from possibility and necessity, is put into question by the First Law of Thermodynamics as well as today’s theories that are close to the “theory of everything.”
The fourth proof is really just logically false and any high schooler can disprove it. It basically assumes qualities, some that are obviously not real qualities, and says that there must be a perfect being which perfectly assumes all qualities from which lesser beings derive the degree of their qualities. It’s merely language gymnastics.
The fifth proof basically equates God with the laws of the universe such as gravity, which is the same as Stephen Hawkings’s God.