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Does God Exist? | Prof. Michael Gorman

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The Importance of Time in the Creation of the World

Aquinas thinks that the fact that things depend on caused causes can't go back forever. So at least theoretically, the world could have always been existing. For Aquinas, God is outside of time and so it's not even like he was always already there. Time just doesn't apply to God in the first place.

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