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to keep the doctrine

reviewed these constants and retracted from his first conclusions and in front of a Soviet Scientific Council said that he believed it to be a “True Miracle” that intelligent life had ever developed

that they cried out

my forlorn life from the teeth of the dog

Contingency Argument Color:White 5 cm) in diameterSt. Thomas Aquinas structured the argument, following Aristotles formulation that there must be something to explain why the universe exists. Since the universe could, conceivably not have existed and therefore be contingent, its existence must have a cause that exists by its own necessity. St. Thomas Aquinas observed that, in nature, there were things that existed in a contingent way, since it would be possible for such things not to exist, and that