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The second law is offered as a simple observation in the same essay but its status as Clarke's second law was conferred by others. It was initially a derivative of the first law and formally became Clarke's second law where the author proposed the third law in the 1973 revision of Profiles of the Future, which included an acknowledgement. [4]
Like other philosophers and theologians, Scotus believed that his statement for God's existence could be considered distinct to that of Aquinas. The form of the argument can be summarised as follows: [27] An effect cannot be produced by itself. An effect cannot be produced by nothing. A circle of causes is impossible.
Morriston asserts that causal laws are physical processes for which we have intuitive knowledge in the context of events within time and space, but that such intuitions do not hold true for the beginning of time itself. He states: [33] "We have no experience of the origin of worlds to tell us that worlds don't come into existence like that.
Likewise, God cannot make a being greater than himself, because he is, by definition, the greatest possible being. God is limited in his actions to his nature. The Bible, in passages such as Hebrews 6:18, says it is "impossible for God to lie". [9] [10] A good example of a modern defender of this line of reasoning is George Mavrodes. [11]
The work of Clarke on the existence of God set off a British debate that lasted to the middle of the century. [13] Edmund Law and other writers represented Clarke as arguing from the existence of time and space to the existence of Deity. [9] Law was influenced by a 1718 work of Samuel Colliber that modified Clarke's approach. [13]
Aquinas proposed a theory of natural law which asserted that something is moral if it works towards the purpose of human existence, and so human nature can determine what is moral. Clark and Poortenga argued that God created human nature and thus commanded a certain morality; hence he cannot arbitrarily change what is right or wrong for humans. [6]
Tom Cruise, who is currently filming “Mission: Impossible 8” in Europe and attended the opening ceremony in addition to women’s gymnastics and swimming competitions, will be one of the ...
For the God who created and upholds the universe was not created – he is eternal. He was not 'made' and therefore subject to the laws that science discovered; it was he who made the universe with its laws. Indeed, that fact constitutes the fundamental distinction between God and the universe. The universe came to be, God did not.