Category: Transcendence

A religious philosopher living in the 1200s had an amazing idea: that God was continuously creating the world. For example, every time you looked outside your window at a tree, God was actively and continuously creating that tree. The name of the philosopher was Thomas Aquinas. During college, I remember how in my ethics class, the professor spoke passionately about this idea of Aquinas. It’s a beautiful idea. The notion that we are all held up in this act of continuous creation. Interestingly, it might not be too far off from what science tells us, if you put aside the question about the existence of God for a moment, and talk about existence itself. In physics, Einstein’s famous equation

tells us that mass and energy are connected. In this podcast, at 17 minutes and 10 seconds, they are discussing this notion of the effort or energy that goes into anything existing, even for a moment, which seems like a parallel to what Aquinas what describing, at least taken figuratively. Check it out!