# Angels can do cute stunts

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [April 27, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels-can-do-cute-stunts/105984 "2002-04-27T17:58:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 27, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/angels-can-do-cute-stunts/105984/1 "2002-04-27T17:58:20Z")

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[Did medieval scholars argue over how many angels could dance on the head of a pin?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_132.html)

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> Fact is, Aquinas did debate whether an angel moving from A to B passes through the points in between

Isn’t it interesting to see how medieval theologists anticiptaed ideas that are, at least similarly, debated by modern physics, if in another context and using another terminology?