Aquinas was unaware of the "Principle of the conservation of energy" whereby matter and energy change their state and do not go out of existence. From this, the fact that something goes out of experience does not mean that the matter/energy that made it up ceases to exist. ... With the possibility that one of the earlier stages (stage 2) of the inductive argument has considerable weaknesses - the latest observation (principle of the conservation of energy) may well show that the previous observations have led us to the wrong conclusion, and therefore the next stages and overall argument are ...

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