# Aquinas and Apologetics

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/aquinas-and-apologetics/9051>\
**Category:** Side Conversation\
**Created:** [December 19, 2019, 7:52am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/aquinas-and-apologetics/9051 "2019-12-19T07:52:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rich\_Hampton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e4f/32.png) [@Rich\_Hampton](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Rich_Hampton)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/aquinas-and-apologetics/9051/13 "2019-12-18T04:09:22Z")

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Well, here’s one tiny example of something which I believe Aquinas would want to revise, “ Aquinas follows Aristotle in believing that heavenly bodies are not subject to decay because they are a different sort of material thing than other material things. Aquinas and Aristotle, first of all, believe that the heavenly bodies, the spheres, are eternal because it is a matter of observation that they move around the earth in uniform circular motion without any variation over many years.”  
Now he might just declare the error is limited in scope and be done with it, but then again it may lead him to start rethinking notions of what is eternal and why. Opening a can of worms as it were.

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