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by dragonwriter 2392 days ago
> Do you agree with Aquinas’ corollary, that absent an actual infinity, there must be some First Cause, which we call God?

Note that even if you agree with Aristotle’s position, which is essentially an arbitrary assumption, and the corollary that there must then be a first cause, there's nothing except the boat of being stepped in a particular religious tradition to suggest that the first cause should have any of the other traits of any particular concept of God. It works just as well to take the earliest known thing on the sequence of causes and say “this cause is uncaused”.