Volume 85, 2011
Science, Reason, and Religion
Travis Dumsday
Pages 69-78
Why Thomistic Philosophy of Nature Implies (Something Like) Big-Bang Cosmology
I argue that two components of Thomistic philosophy of nature (specifically, hylomorphism combined with a relational ontology of space) entail a core claim of big-bang cosmology. I then consider some implications of this fact for natural theology.