apples+oranges=Parrots?, we'll just let religion deal with it...

To me the “philosopher” referred to in this writing may be Aristotle since it referred to “Aristotelian cosmology” in the title. And I generally feel that these writings are somewhat similar to Augustine’s but at the same time, completely different. Aquinas basically talks about what people would think in these situations but without actually interpreting what he believes in each of these. He goes on to quote the bible and other scholars, but again lacks to give any of his own original input. I found this really annoying because he’s just telling me what everyone else though but not what he takes from all of this information. But overall I fell that this writings support the church because it goes on to say that belief in God is basically fundamental in the fact that we have to believe in god to explain what we don’t know or understand at the time. This also raises a lot of questions for me, like why must we turn to religion to challenge what we don’t understand, shouldn’t one just tackle these questions head on? How would knowledge progress if one just gave up at ever mystery presented?