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Date Submitted: 08/09/2000 21:28:04
Does God Exist
What is God? Who is God? Why do some people conclude that a God
exists? Saint Thomas Aquinas goes from the fact that there must be a first
efficient cause to the conclusion that God is that cause. Why must Aquinas
make the extraordinary jump from there being a cause, to assuming that this
cause must be God? Would it not be just as plausible to make matter the first
cause? Matter
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unsolved mysteries and theories of the universe. However, matter is a better
fit. Overall, I have shown that the argument given by Aquinas only assumes
God, it does not prove it. Matter "is", just as God "is". Furthermore, I have
shown that the explanation of God is not needed and therefore there is no
place for God in the discussion of the first cause. Therefore, God does not
exist as a first efficient cause.
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