Monday, February 23, 2009

St. Tomas Aquina's Five Ways

The worst of Aquinas proof is the Second Way: Causation of Existence. This proof contradicts itself the worst. He states that in existence an object cannot create itself. Which is true a baby comes from parents and a tree from a seed. You just cannot create oneself. But then he says that God must be the one that created everything. If he says that God created everything then who created God because according to Aquinas nothing can create itself which means that something would have created God which means that he is not the ultimate creator because someone must have created him. I mean he could not just appeared out of nowhere and just start creating things.

The best proof that Aquinas has is the Fifth Way The Argument from Intelligent Design. This proof is the best in my opinion because it is the only one that does not contradict itself. During that time there was no science and no Darwin so the idea of evolution did not exist. And this intelligent design theory today is still a very big part of the world. I mean recently they were arguing whether they should incorporate intelligent design into school or not. And even though there is no proof that God designed and ordered everything by this intelligent designer called God. But this is the only theory we have. Still how are we to know if God really is this intelligent designer we would never know; that's why people had blind faith and even now people have blind faith in science. So religion and science are the two things that people rely on the most these days.

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