(1) To these Aristotelian concepts Aquinas added Christian convictions that God is loving, providential, and ruler of the universe.(2) Indeed, Galileo's first opponents were the Aristotelians at the Universities, while the four leading pioneers of geokineticism - Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton - were all young-earth creationists!(3) According to Aristotelian metaphysics, natures are complexes of powers.(4) Shaping impulses, recalls Platonic and Aristotelian reason's governing and guiding appetites and emotions.(5) The modern Aristotelian , less inclined to discount inferiors and outsiders than Aristotle himself, can fight back.(6) While presenting himself as an advocate of traditional learning, Kircher, like many of his fellow Jesuits, was hardly a strict Aristotelian .(7) In many respects Charron was a pure sceptic, whose criticisms of Aristotelian philosophy were among the most cogent produced by the Renaissance sceptics.(8) Moreover, even in the Aristotelian ontology, not everything that was attributed to a subject had to be an accident.(9) The system of Sacrobosco, then, had nine spheres, the outermost being occupied by the activity of the First Mover who was, for a medieval Aristotelian like Sacrobosco, the Christian God.(10) Theophrastus sustained the Aristotelian character of the Lyceum.(11) Even while she tries to spare as many well-meaning Aristotelians as possible, Haskins hands Aristotle himself an indictment detailing his crimes against liberal democracy and true civic discourse.(12) The author pleads for applying to theology the methods of the natural sciences, as in former times Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy were used by the Christian theologians.(13) It is this emphasis on the control of natural forces that most clearly sets apart Bacon's philosophy from the Aristotelian philosophy he hoped to overthrow.(14) All changes in the visible objects of the world of appearance are brought about by relocations of these atoms: in Aristotelian terms, the atomists reduce all change to change of place.(15) But in terms of ideas, an important place must be given to Aquinas and his fellow Christian Aristotelians .(16) Whether such facts were or were not recognized by Aristotelian philosophers was a matter of no interest to him.