| > At which point we must conclude that it is a shame that theology has captured the minds of so many brilliant people. Or that the brilliant people whom it captured were more brilliant than arm chair philosophers of the modern age. Even Aquinas didn't like Godel/Anselm's argument: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological_argument#Thomas_Aq... And this is not specifically theology, but philosophy generally. Aristotle espoused these views in 300 BC: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle#Metaphysics And I think you'd be hard pressed to call Aristotle "religious", and yet the (Catholic) Church took up worldview with few qualms: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ways_(Aquinas) When universities were established in the middle ages, they certainly had theology as a specific course of study, but a good portion of the curriculum was about Aristotle's view of the natural world: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Aristotelicum |