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Aquinas, Creation, and Intelligent Design | Professor Francis Beckwith

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The First Cause of the Universe

Aquinas says God is the first cause, not merely in a chronological sense. He argues that any being that must derive its causal power from another requires a first cause. According to Aquinas, once we recognize God as first cause, there are many things that follow from it.

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