The Relationship Between St. Thomas' Fifth Way and Modern Science
In many people’s minds, Science and Faith are fundamentally at odds with one another. If we can explain some phenomenon on scientific principles, then we can remove God from the consideration – or, if God is active, then science must step aside. As we have discussed before, this is not the Catholic view and especially not Aquinas’ view of the relationship between God and Nature.
This is beautifully illustrated in Aquinas’ so-called “fifth way” of arguing for God’s existence from the Summa Theologiae, especially in comparison to some modern arguments for God linked to modern science.
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