Friday, February 27, 2009

The 5 Ways!!!

St Thomas Aquinas gave five ways that God could be explained rationally. To me personally, none of these ways make sense because, he assumes that God is the exception to every rule. for instance, he says that every object has to be put into motion by another object, EXCEPT for God. Everyone of these ways always has an "EXCEPT for God" clause. the way that I think makes the most sense (even then it doesn't make much sense) is St Thomas's second way. In the second St Thomas states that no object creates itself, therefore all objects must have come from something else. St Thomas, calls God, the "uncaused first cause", which began the chain of existence for all things. This seems to be the only way that St Thomas could go about explaining existence, while still incorporating rational ideas such as evolution, and the spiritual ideas of intelligent design.

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  1. Of course, Aquinas would never want to discuss evolution (it did not exist yet). I like the comments, well done! 12/12 for week 2.

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