How do atheist\scientists account for Thomas Aquinas?

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Unless my limited knowledge of quantum physics is flawed, almost all physicists believe that not every effect has a cause. For instance the decay of a subatomic particle.

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Your knowledge of quantum physics is correct on this point.

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Of course Aquinas would have had no reason to know this.

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Right, but he should have realized that it's not logically impossible and treated it as an unsolved empirical issue rather than a self-evident premise.