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    Supports→Belief in creation is unwarranted if Aristotle is correct about the fifth element and the eternity of motion and time.

    If an immutable fifth element (ether) exists in the celestial region, the heavens are not subject to generation or destruction.

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    Like the polemic against Proclus, Against Aristotle is mainly devoted to removing obstacles for the creationist. If Aristotle were right about the existence of an immutable fifth element (ether) in the celestial region, and if he were right about motion and time being eternal, any belief in creation would surely be unwarranted. Philoponus succeeds in pointing to numerous contradictions, inconsistencies, fallacies and improbable assumptions in Aristotle’s philosophy of nature relating to these cl

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