Bn posits the query: "What would Aquinas think of the modern theory of black holes?"
Several points spring to mind:
As a type and shadow ourselves,
we have only a "type and shadow" level of realization;
our awe is proof of God's absolute dominion.
Our astonishment reveals in part the gulf between man and the perfect God,
marking our own reasoning facility as insubstantial.
That wonder and the impetus to address it,
our presumption to contend with nature with reason
Reveals of what perfection whence we came.
Our astonishment over the phenomena is perhaps a kind of prayer;
Which might highlight a justification for some to make the matter plain,
As if to dispel and disperse anything like prayer,
And reduce all of the heavens and earth to mere data points.
But there are those that would grasp at the truth of the heavens
For the sake of not reason, but perfect communion with God.
Insufficient research(wonder) is proof of God.
Setting one's eyes towards the heavens is wonder about God.
Conducting empirical research is as seminary, learning of God.
Complete understanding through science is proof of God.
To study nature
Is to contemplate God.
And contemplating God
Is presumption from we unworthies,
Those yet paradoxically loved by God
All the perfections and flaws
Allowed to contest and contend our measure of Creation.
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