The Existence Of God: Theories Of Thomas Aquinas, St. Anselm, And William Paley

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anguish of
losing a loved one.
In the Bible, a book meant to be the word of God, condemns such things
as murder, adultery and theft. I find it hard to believe that an all-powerful,
all-knowing, infinitely-good being that “created” this world and everything in
it would allow any of these things to occur. He would not only condemn them in
an ancient book, but abolish them altogether along with any other things evil.
If God is supposed to be the “heavenly father” wouldn't he want and impose onto
his children his goodness and weed out all evil?
Aquinas also shows this non-existence through Objective 2 where he
writes how it is expecting too much for something that can be accounted for be a
few principles has been produced by many. There are other principles that can
account for everything we see in our world supposing God did not exist. All
things can be reduced to one principle, that of nature and therefore there is no
need to suppose God's existence.
Once more I agree with his ...

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it is impossible for something with potentiality for motion, to advance
itself to actuality of motion.
I agree with this theory because I have studied Physics and have read of
the teachings of Sir Isaac Newton, but as Science explains, there are perfectly
logical explanations as to the formulation of today's motion, Big Bang Gasses,
and the evolution of man. In agreeing with this theory I, in no way have
contradicted myself, for I believe there always has been motion of some kind it
is through millions upon millions of years occurrences, building up and evolving
that the current conditions (life) has occurred.

The Second Way: The Argument From Causation

In his second ...

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