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    Something cannot come into being if its existence require... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The conception of a temporally infinite universe, understood as a successive causal chain, is impossible.

    Something cannot come into being if its existence requires the preexistence of an infinite number of other things, one arising out of the other.

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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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