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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2024
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1 pp. 23-4. “Now -it is a first principle that, of itself, a thing is what it is and is not what it is not. That sounds ridiculously obvious, but it contains within itself the implied affirmaton of God’s existence! For if of themselves things are what they are, and are not what they are not, and if, on the other hand, all things in the universe are constantly changing, and becoming what they are not, then evidently the changing universe cannot explain itself, and the fact of change can only be accounted for ultimately by positing a changeless Being, who is the cause of all changes, either directly or indirectly. This changeless Being, this First Cause, is God.”
In this passage we are given the proof that change cannot account for itself. Then however there is a jump from change to the transcendent unchanging, which leaves out the very necessary consideration of act and potency (though not necessarily in those terns) and could equally well be used in support of any immanentist evolutionary theory.
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