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| | Robert Boyle |
 | | First of all, it certainly fits the fact that Boyle has a very limited view of omnipotence. |
 | | For Boyle is conscious of himself as building on past views, and such views typically treated matter as giving rise to the present world, and, in the case of some past thinkers, at least, as having existed in a constant state for some time before the initiating changes that led to the present world occurred. |
 | | The notion of a piecemeal creation, that is, fits Boyle's views of God's abilities, fits Genesis, and fits the views of previous thinkers. |
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