ABSTRACT It has been argued that divine creation should be understood solely in a metaphysical and theological sense, and not within the context of modern cosmology and biology. In this way, any conflict between science and religion is totally avoided. William Carroll is a scholar of Aquinas who has justified this position, citing arguments made by Thomas, specifically that creation does not involve change. Here, I argue that this is a major distortion of Aquinas’ views and that the ontology of creation formulated is fundamentally incoherent.

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对创造的形而上学解释的神学异议

摘要有人认为，神的创造应仅从形而上学和神学的意义上理解，而不应在现代宇宙论和生物学的背景下理解。这样，完全避免了科学与宗教之间的任何冲突。威廉·卡洛尔（William Carroll）是阿奎那（Aquinas）的学者，他引用托马斯（Thomas）的论点证明了这一立场，特别是创造不涉及改变。在这里，我认为这是对阿奎那观点的主要歪曲，并且所提出的创造本体论从根本上是不一致的。