Why Thomistic Philosophy of Nature Implies (Something Like) Big-Bang Cosmology

Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85:69-78 (2011)
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I argue that two components of Thomistic philosophy of nature (specifically, hylomorphism combined with a relational ontology of space) entail a core claim of big-bang cosmology. I then consider some implications of this fact for natural theology.

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10.5840/acpaproc2011857

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