Assertion: conservation | /r/HasAspect | patient
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text: According to Craig, it is intuitively clear that creation and conservation are distinct actions since conservation has a patient (or object) and creation does not.
text: He concludes that conservation has no patient; God does not do something to an already existing creature to preserve it.
text: Vallicella observes first that if conservation has a patient, God’s conservation of it must be diachronic.