"Evolution of nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation because evolution presupposes the creation of beings which evolve".
The evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve".
All Greek philosophy had presupposed creation was from something more primitive, not nothing.
Reid was later to maintain that the creation of instituted signs presupposes an agreement among a community of speakers, which in turn presupposes language, and this led him to declare that there must be some language that is innately understood rather than established by convention.
Creation out of nothing presupposes the possibility of total nothingness.
Further, some of the thegns served in the royal army (fyrd) under the command of Bishop Oswald or his successors, which presupposes the creation of a personal warband and possibly one with the secondary purpose of protecting the bishop's properties.
Aquinas answered this objection in somewhat the following way: the benefit that the theologian may derive from an investigation of natural reality cannot be determined in advance, but, in general, faith presupposes and therefore needs natural knowledge of the world; at times, an error concerning the creation leads people astray also from the truth of faith.
Failing French entrepreneurs are hounded by a legal system that presupposes foul play in all bankruptcies, raising significant barriers to the creation of new enterprises and jobs.
Related to this point, it may also be argued, more generally, that it is impossible for us to frame any idea of Creation (i.e., God creating the whole world) because our idea of causation presupposes a framework of ideas that already requires the existence of objects in the world (cp.T,1.3.15.1 10/ 173 4).
The creation of a democratic constitution must not be thought of along the lines of a social contract, since it presupposes the prior existence of a people as a political unity, as explicated in the Concept of the Political (CT 112 3; Böckenförde 1998).
It presupposes a plan, reasons for things.
