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79: Edward Feser Explodes Richard Dawkins' "refutation" of Aquinas' 5 ways

Pints With Aquinas

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The Unwarranted Presumption That God Is Immune to the Regress

Dawkins says Aquinas just makes an entirely unwarranted assumption that God is immune to the regress, well, it's not entirely unwarranted at all. It follows directly from Aquinas' analysis of the way a hierarchical or essentially ordered series of causes work together with his analysis of change. Now, someone might try to attack that argument in different ways, but Dawkins doesn't even know what the argument is.

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